Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 18:39:54 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> To: Jeff Palmer <scorpio@drkshdw.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: General questions Message-ID: <20010612183954.A52701@ringworld.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010612032452.00ac4600@jeff.isni.net>; from scorpio@drkshdw.org on Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 03:35:48AM -0600 References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010612032452.00ac4600@jeff.isni.net>
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On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 03:35:48AM -0600, Jeff Palmer wrote:
> I'm creating a new port. An addition to qmail.
>
> I've created and maintained other ports, but this is my first "major" one.
> Unfortunately, the porters-handbook is a little lacking (I might send a
> -doc PR after I get these answers.)
>
> Anyway, on to the questions.
>
> #1) I don't want to hard code /var/qmail in the do-install:
> However, my port doesn't seem to understand the
> ${QMAIL-INSTALL-PREFIX}
> as other ports do. (e.g. mail/qmail-tls)
> How would I tell the Makefile to use the ${QMAIL-INSTALL-PREFIX} like other
> ports?
I believe the variable is actually called QMAIL_PORT_PREFIX; what exactly
are you doing, and how does it fail? Can you post your Makefile, along
with some logs, to show exactly how is it failing?
> (I think the answer to number 1 will get me through number 2)
Quite possibly :)
> #2) After the port is installed, how do I create the pkg-plist? nothing
> goes into
> ${PREFIX} (/usr/local/) most files will actually be going into
> /var/qmail/bin/
>
> would I create the pkg-plist with:
> ${QMAIL-INSTALL-PREFIX}/bin/file1
> ${QMAIL-INSTALL-PREFIX}/bin/file2 etc?
After you've done something like PREFIX?= ${QMAIL_PORT_PREFIX}, then
no, you don't need the QMAIL_PORT_PREFIX in the pkg-plist, too;
everything there is relative to ${PREFIX}, so you just need bin/file1,
bin/file2, etc.
> I have a plist creation script that I created from the porters
> handbook, however,
> it creates an empty file now, because nothing goes into /usr/local
If you set ${PREFIX} properly, everything should work.
G'luck,
Peter
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