I have encountered another obstacle as a Portfile newbie.
I am breaking a single upstream codebase into subports. I want each
subport to contribute some of the overall complement of files. But the
"make install" of the codebase installs more files than I want. Thus I
think the right thing to do is to declare a post-destroot which delete
the excess files from each subport.
My Portfile has an entry like this:
post-destroot {
set sharedir ${prefix}/share
delete ${prefix}/lib/libfreeciv.a
delete ${sharedir}/doc ${sharedir}/man ${sharedir}/locale
}
But, when I run "sudo port destroot freeciv-server", then look at what I
believe is the destroot:
ls $(port work freeciv-server)/destroot/opt/local/share
the directories which I wanted to delete are still present.
I look in the main.log for this subport. I don't see any diagnostics
from those delete directives.
How can I remove the unwanted files from what the port installs? How can
I make these delete directives effective?
Thank you in advance for your help. Best regards,
—Jim DeLaHunt
