Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 13:32:01 -0400 From: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: ugly perl module install Message-ID: <20040809173201.GA27989@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org>
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Hi,
Before I go state in an article that we have an ugly port, I thought
I'd mention it to the maintainer (ports@) to see if you guys want to /
can do anything. If your answer is a straight "Yep, that's ugly,
don't it suck?" I'll run with what I have.
I'm working on getting netflow and flowscan working. To make flowscan
recognize the format used by flow-capture, I have to use the copy of
flowscan provided in the contrib directory of flow-tools. I followed this process:
--
make (do not install!) net-mgmt/flow-tools
cd /usr/ports/net-mgmt/flow-tools/work/flow-tools-0.67/contrib/Cflow-1.051
perl Makefile.PL
make
no do "make install" on
net-mgmt/flowscan
will install all the dependencies
now cd /usr/ports/net-mgmt/flow-tools/work/flow-tools-0.67/contrib/Cflow-1.051
and do make install.
--
The Makefile for Cflow does an explicit check for a library provided
by flow-tools, but in a hard-coded manner:
..
if (-f '../../lib/libft.a') {
..
of course, once you do a "make install" for the port, the library is
moved to /usr/local/lib.
Surely we could, say, include a patch to net-mgmt/p5-Cflow to make the
port check for $PREFIX/lib/libft.a rather than the ../../lib/libft.a?
If not, I'll document the ugliness in this instance and make a cranky
comment about how knowing how to actually build software is still
useful these days, and these kids don't know how good they have it
with "configure" and so on... ;-)
Thanks,
==ml
--
Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org
"I'm sorry, but 'Social Darwinism' is no excuse for killing all of
your co-workers." -- Ivan Brunetti
http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/
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