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Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 10:06:58 +0000
From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
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Subject: Re: making /usr/share/mk apps PREFIX-independant???
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On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 10:49:13AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 09:30:30 +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > I'm against PREFIX in share/mk files.  Instead, just setting
> > DESTDIR=3D${PREFIX} should (almost) be enough.
>=20
> I agree.  See ports/mail/popd/Makefile for an example of a port that
> uses a pure bsd.prog.mk-driven Makefile for ${PREFIX}-sensitive
> installation.

Doesn't it strike anyone as being a bit, well, icky, that we have to do
this for software developed on this platform, using this platform's
standard infrastructure for defining Makefiles?

Perhaps just a "USES_BSD_MK=3Dyes" flag to wrap this for other ports as
well (I'm thinking specifically of the scr* stuff I wrote, but there may
be others).

N
--=20
FreeBSD: The Power to Serve             http://www.freebsd.org/
FreeBSD Documentation Project           http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/

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