Date: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 18:53:15 -0500 From: Pedro Giffuni <giffunip@asme.org> To: Joseph Koshy <jkoshy@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A peculiar port; advice requested ... Message-ID: <35A4066B.B12F8110@asme.org> References: <199807081128.EAA02089@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Joseph Koshy wrote:
> Quirks:
>
> 1. While the official master site uses a ".tar.Z" suffix for most files,
> some of the mirrors use ".tar.gz" instead.
>
Both use the same extract command (tar -xzf), so don't worry about the extension
and write the complete list of tarballs in DISTFILES=.
>
>
> 2. The install process involves a recompilation of (a) the runtime system
> and (b) the SML/NJ standard libraries. The default installation
> process expects to do this `in-place' in the final installation
> directory tree.
>
> I'm somehow not comfortable with a compilation under /usr/local as
> part of `make'; however is it acceptable? Does any other port do
> anything similar?
Scilab does something like this, if I were doing it , I'd try a symlink in
/usr/local, but I think Scilab changes some scripts..I'm not sure.
>
>
> 3. Is creating a new hierarchy root say "${PREFIX}/sml-nj" ok? The default
> installation expects "bin", "bin.${ARCH}", "lib" etc. under
> this `ROOT'. Changing the installation to confirm to a more
> conventional "/usr/local/*/" structure would make a FreeBSD SML/NJ
> installation different from the other unix installations. Do
> we have a strict policy on directory hierarchies?
>
If it's unavoidable you can use $(PREFIX)/sml-nj, but if there's only one
executable you should try $(PREFIX)/lib/sml-nj and add a link or a script.
Hope that helps,
Pedro.
> Thanks,
> Koshy
> <jkoshy@freebsd.org>
>
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