Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:12:57 +0400 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org> To: "Stanislav Sedov" <ssedov@mbsd.msk.ru> Cc: othermark <atkin901@yahoo.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question on respecting PREFIX, LOCALBASE, SITE_PERL, etc... Message-ID: <cb5206420608252312o5846eaccvd8087e561f915833@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060824225401.16cf1c19@localhost> References: <eckn3d$der$1@sea.gmane.org> <20060824225401.16cf1c19@localhost>
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On 8/24/06, Stanislav Sedov <ssedov@mbsd.msk.ru> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:19:40 -0700
> othermark <atkin901@yahoo.com> mentioned:
>
> > I have a port that I'm working on that, in addition to the binaries it
> > generates, it generates the following:
> >
> > - C api, includes, libraries
> > - perl api
> > - tcl api
> > - python api
> >
> > it also has java and rexx extensions, but I'm not going to add those until
> > later.
> >
> > My question revolves around respecting both PREFIX and stuff like TCL_LIBDIR
> > and SITE_PERL. I want the port to be heir(7) compliant, but I'm also
> > patching the install to put perl, tcl, and python modules in the
> > TCL/PERL/PYTHON respective site library repositories.
> >
> > So when the operator uses make PREFIX=/somedir do I rigorously plop
> > everthing under PREFIX and patch the TCL/PERL/PYTHON destinations to match,
> > or do I go ahead and plop those in the SITE_PERL, PYTHON_SITELIBDIR, etc
> > actual locations on the box?
> >
> > Doing everything under PREFIX makes it easier to properly form the pkg-list,
> > but that can be coded around to.
> >
>
> You certainly should respect PREFIX, but now PERL/ruby/tcl etc
> frameworks don't do this well. So don't think about this now and
> install everything under SITE_PERL etc. Somebody should take a
> look on these frameworks and fix them, then your port will be
> PREFIX clean without your interaction. It's a framework problem,
> not your port's. AFAIK, only ocaml framework handles it properly now.
Please, man :-) Look this up:
PYTHONPREFIX_SITELIBDIR
SITE_PERL_REL
As for Tcl, you can install it into ${PREFIX}/{include,lib}/${PORTNAME}
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