[pacman-dev] Configure --prefix in PKGBUILD scripts

[Antonio Huete Jimenez]

I don't think that costs too much effort and I think it would be even a nice
feature.

Why should we have separate ABS tree for each operating system? That sound a
lot of more effort. But well, this is just an opinion.

Cheers,
Antonio Huete


2008/6/4 Allan McRae <mcrae_allan at hotmail.com>:

> Antonio Huete Jimenez wrote:
> > I was thinking a way of changing --prefix= used in configure. I think
> > it's desirable to have a chance to change this to another directory,
> > specially in BSD where a lot of userland applications should not be
> > replaced with packages.
> >
> > pkgsrc does that by installing on /usr/pkg its bin, doc, lib, etc ...
> >
> > We could add to makepkg.conf the option PREFIX so we can use later
> > $PREFIX in PKGBUILD. For Archlinux we could specify /usr by default
> > and use /usr/pac for others, or whatever the user needs to.
> > This wouldn't affect ABS behaviour in Archlinux IMHO
> >
> > What do you think guys? :)
>
>
> Let me get this correct.  You want to add a PREFIX option in
> makepkg.conf so then people will use "./configure --prefix=${PREFIX}" in
> the PKGBUILDs and thus PKGBUILDs are portable across operating systems?
>
> If I interpreted you right there, it seems a bit of a waste of time to
> me.  When writing an Arch PKGBUILD, why would anybody write "${PREFIX}"
> instead of "/usr". One is a lot simpler, clearer and shorter and when
> writing a PKGBUILD for Arch, you are targeting Arch not every other
> operating system.
>
> Also, if porting Arch PKGBUILDs to other operating systems, changing the
> prefix is likely to be the easy part...
>
> Allan
>
>
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