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

[Dan McGee]

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 5:23 AM, Allan McRae <mcrae_allan at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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...

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