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Date:      Thu, 22 May 2008 07:52:57 -0400
From:      Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Marc Spitzer <mspitzer@gmail.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: hier 7 question
Message-ID:  <20080522115257.GF56229@atarininja.org>
In-Reply-To: <8c50a3c30805212030l4ef7cbd6v3bc8b828c528ad84@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:30:50PM -0400, Marc Spitzer wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:13 PM, Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net> wrote:
> > * Marc Spitzer <mspitzer@gmail.com> [05-21-2008]:
> >
> >> The configure script does not have a --testdir knob that I can set to
> >> ${PREFIX}/libexec/test to install the test programs their, although it
> >> does have one for everything else.  I can just just do 'mv
> >> ${prefix}/test ${prefix}/libexec' to move it over, but that is what I
> >> was saying looks very hackish.  So I guess my question is what would
> >> be the correct way to move a directory tree over with out steping on
> >> any preexisting directory there?
> >
> > Do the files have to be in a 'test' directory?  Perhaps you can just copy
> > them into libexec/ sans the 'test' dir.
> >
> 
> The problem with that is that there is a tree under test/ with over
> 200 files/subdirs in it.  And I would like to do this cleanly.  I do
> have a request for a knob in with the developer though.

Patch the port to install them in libexec/test/.  If you want to install
them all manually (if it's a cleaner solution) you can use COPYTREE_BIN.

-- WXS



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