Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 11:28:30 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@sigpipe.cz> To: FreeBSD Ports <ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: make port to install to a different PREFIX Message-ID: <20051004092830.GC1633@isis.sigpipe.cz> In-Reply-To: <20051003184904.GB46117@iib.unsam.edu.ar> References: <20051003184904.GB46117@iib.unsam.edu.ar>
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# fernan@iib.unsam.edu.ar / 2005-10-03 15:49:04 -0300:
> I'm the maintainer of the biology/emboss port. The port
> installs by default to $PREFIX which, in most cases should
> be $LOCALBASE (i.e. /usr/local).
>
> EMBOSS is a big package, with lots of executable files. It
> is thus not surprising that some of the executables have the
> same name as those installed by other ports.
>
> Right now these are the recorded conflicts:
> CONFLICTS= nss-* qmail-ldap2-* digest-*
>
> To work around this, I was thinking about installing
> biology/emboss by default to PREFIX/emboss.
> However, I'm having problems in getting this to work.
>
> This does not work:
> CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --prefix=${PREFIX}/emboss
>
> and neither does this:
> PREFIX?= ${PREFIX}/emboss
>
> because obviously 'Variable PREFIX is recursive.'
Either use PREFIX?=${LOCALBASE}/emboss, or use another approach (IMO
better, but depends on whether the configure script supports it):
CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--program-prefix=emboss-
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