Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 14:47:17 -0800 (PST) From: Joseph Scott <joseph@randomnetworks.com> To: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using HAS_CONFIGURE to enforce PREFIX Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012151444560.58776-100000@mothra.ecs.csus.edu> In-Reply-To: <002901c066db$1e5ce7d0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
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On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Matthew Emmerton wrote:
# > Joseph Scott wrote:
# >
# > > I've been updating a couple of ports and noticed something.
# Both
# > > of these ports use configure, but weren't honoring PREFIX. After
# looking
# > > through bsd.port.mk I came across HAS_CONFIGURE, who as a default of
# > > adding --prefix=${PREFIX} to the configure args. This made both of the
# > > ports in question correctly install into PREFIX instead of /usr/local.
# > >
# > > Is this the right way to enforce PREFIX with configure'd ports?
#
# In general, if a port uses GNU configure, then adding 'GNU_CONFIGURE=yes' to
# the Makefile is all that is neccessary. bsd.port.mk will look after passing
# the proper arguments to GNU configure to ensure that PREFIX is honored when
# the makefiles are built.
#
# Looking at security/stunnel, it defines USE_AUTOCONF, which implies
# GNU_CONFIGURE, which implies HAS_CONFIGURE, so this port should be honoring
# PREFIX in any case.
#
# As for ftp/cftp, it defines GNU_CONFIGURE which implies HAS_CONFIGURE and
# should honor PREFIX as well.
#
# Both of these ports built and installed properly for me using alternate
# values for PREFIX.
Hummmm, I tried a `make install PREFIX=/tmp/port` and in some
cases all of the port would still go to /usr/local, in others only part
would go to PREFIX, the rest to /usr/local.
# One thing that you may be getting caught by is that you need to do a 'make
# clean' before trying to change the value of PREFIX for a port. This is
# because configure hard-codes the paths into the makefiles it builds during a
# 'make configure', and won't be updated if you do something like 'make
# install PREFIX=/some/other/dir' when you go to install.
Yes, I got caught by that a few times when working on other
ports. I usually do a make after updating the obvious stuff, see if it
breaks. If it survives I do a make clean and then a make install
PREFIX=xxxxx vodoo.
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