Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:45:00 -0700 From: Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> To: stevefranks@ieee.org Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: textproc/flex (/usr/local/bin/flex) shadowed by /usr/bin/flex after install Message-ID: <48EBD85C.6070901@delphij.net> In-Reply-To: <539c60b90810071407t76ae801fo8f89ca8a65f6b3b4@mail.gmail.com> References: <539c60b90810071407t76ae801fo8f89ca8a65f6b3b4@mail.gmail.com>
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Steve Franks wrote:
> In maintaining devel/urjtag, I've added a dependancy to textproc/flex.
> On some systems, however, I've found that when textproc/flex gets
> installed, it lands in /usr/local/bin, as expected, but there's a
> /usr/bin/flex which precedes it in the path - is there a canonical way
> to resolve this? I've just been mv'ing my /usr/bin/flex, but clearly,
> I can't add a patch to a port to do that to other people's systems...
Ah... I feel astonished that flex lives in textproc/ as bison lived in
devel/...
I think what you have to do is:
BUILD_DEPENDS= ${LOCALBASE}/bin/flex:${PORTSDIR}/textproc/flex
and do a post-patch action of
@${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's, flex, ${LOCALBASE}/bin/flex,g'
or similar where necessary...
Cheers,
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Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net/
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