Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 10:34:33 +0100
From: nclayton@lehman.com
To: ports@freebsd.org
Subject: Automatic handling of pkg/MESSAGE and pkg/INSTALL; ${LOCALBASE}
Message-ID: <19990609103433.J22307@lehman.com>
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Hi folks,
I'm not a particularly prolific porter, and I only maintain a couple of
ports useful to the Doc. Proj., so I don't keep a close eye on this mailing
list.
I'm reading the porting documentation at
http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/porting.html
and a couple of oddities struck me.
If you go and read the description of pkg/MESSAGE, you see that it is
only automatically displayed if the user is adding the package, and not
if they do "make install" on the port. If you want to display it during
the port you need to do something like;
post-install:
@${CAT} pkg/MESSAGE
which strikes me as a little odd. Surely if the file exists then the port
should display it at install time anyway, without (presumably) a couple
of hundred ports all duplicating the above code in their Makefiles.
Similarly, pkg/INSTALL, which is only automatically run by the package; to
get that functionality in the port you need to do;
pre-install:
@pkg/INSTALL ${PKGNAME} PRE-INSTALL
[...]
post-install:
@pkg/INSTALL ${PKGNAME} POST-INSTALL
Surely the above would make more sense, and then the description changes to
something like;
If you want to have certain commands run before or after the port is
installed (either with "make install", or by "pkg_add <package>",
place them in a script called pkg/INSTALL. This script will receive
two parameters . . .
Finally, ${LOCALBASE}. The textproc/docproj port has a number of
dependencies on files/directories (as opposed to programs) that are
currently written as;
${PREFIX}/share/sgml/iso8879:${PORTSDIR}/textproc/iso8879
Would I be right in thinking that ${PREFIX} in this example should really
be ${LOCALBASE}?
Thanks,
N
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