On May 12, 2007, at 02:23, Randall Wood wrote:
Why is the postgresql82 port installed in the file locations its installed in?
It is spread out strangely, and this making me pull some black magic to get a port that depends on it working, that I would rather not do.
It installs the following data in the following places: --sysconfdir=${prefix}/etc/${name} \ --bindir=${prefix}/lib/${name}/bin \ --libdir=${prefix}/lib/${name} \ --includedir=${prefix}/lib/${name}/include/${name} \
I am porting an autoconf-based package (libgda3) that detects postgres database libraries in /path/to/postgres/lib and is fairly inflexible about this.
I would like to suggest that maybe we need to create a space in $ {prefix} where ports that need to be installed in a private namespace can be installed there, such as ${prefix}/port In the case of postgresql82, this would mean installing in ${prefix}/port/ postgresql82 (although I would leave the conf dir where it is at)
The php5 port pulls some black magic to work with the layout of the mysql5 port. It's not too bad.