Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 10:11:29 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: FreeBSD Ports <ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: make port to install to a different PREFIX Message-ID: <20051004141129.GA61667@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20051004092830.GC1633@isis.sigpipe.cz> References: <20051003184904.GB46117@iib.unsam.edu.ar> <20051004092830.GC1633@isis.sigpipe.cz>
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On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 11:28:30AM +0200, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> # 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 $LOCALBASE (i.e. /usr/local).
> >=20
> > EMBOSS is a big package, with lots of executable files. It
> > is thus not surprising that some of the executables have the
> > same name as those installed by other ports.
> >=20
> > Right now these are the recorded conflicts:
> > CONFLICTS=3D nss-* qmail-ldap2-* digest-*
> >=20
> > To work around this, I was thinking about installing
> > biology/emboss by default to PREFIX/emboss.
> > However, I'm having problems in getting this to work.
> >=20
> > This does not work:
> > CONFIGURE_ARGS+=3D --prefix=3D${PREFIX}/emboss
> >=20
> > and neither does this:
> > PREFIX?=3D ${PREFIX}/emboss
> >=20
> > because obviously 'Variable PREFIX is recursive.'
>=20
> Either use PREFIX?=3D${LOCALBASE}/emboss, or use another approach (IMO
This is wrong. Ports install into PREFIX, not LOCALBASE.
> better, but depends on whether the configure script supports it):
> CONFIGURE_ARGS+=3D--program-prefix=3Demboss-
Yes, you need to force the vendor software to install where you tell
it to. Once you figure out how the software installs itself into a
directory of your choosing, just do
EMBOSS_PREFIX?=3D${PREFIX}/emboss
and install into ${EMBOSS_PREFIX}.
=20
Kris
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