On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 01:31:04PM -0500, The Anarcat wrote:
> [posted to -arch, and CC'd to hackers since I have no idea as to where
> this belongs, please redirect if necessary]
>
> Hi.
>
> As a developper working in the FreeBSD/ports paradigm, and developping
> exclusively for FreeBSD through the libh project, it has come to my
> attention that applications developped through /usr/share/mk Makefiles
> (in particular bsd.prog.mk and bsd.lib.mk) do not respect PREFIX.
>
> That is, the libh Makefiles, as set now, install in /usr no matter what.
> There is no real alternative. Setting DESTDIR will install in
> /${DESTDIR}/usr, without changing the PREFIX (/usr).
>
> In other words, apps developped using /usr/share/mk makefiles are
> incompatible with the ports collection PREFIX-independance paradigm.
>
> That sucks.
>
> This is a problem which must be solved. As a hack, the libh port uses a
> custom install target in the ports skeleton (ie, it doesn't use libh
> install targets).
>
> How I see it, the .mk files must be hacked. One could try such a replace
> pattern, I guess: s!install(.*)${DESTDIR}!install\1${PREFIX}/${DESTDIR}!
>
> I tried to produce a significant patch, and I failed. I do not
> understand how some files end up in /bin and some other in /usr/bin.
>
> If someone can help me with that, I will happily start hacking on the mk
> files, but in the meantime, I'm lost.
>
I'm against PREFIX in share/mk files. Instead, just setting
DESTDIR=${PREFIX} should (almost) be enough. Another set of
"hacks" might be required for *DIR settings, like LIBDIR=/lib,
MANDIR=/man, etc. Just adding the PREFIX wouldn't solve
these differences between / and /usr/local anyway.
Cheers,
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