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

[Antonio Huete Jimenez]

And how is supposed I can change the prefix for a wide variety of PKGBUILD
and still have them useable under Archlinux and others???

I still say that having separate ABS tree don't have any benefit for other
OSes.


2008/6/4 Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com>:

> 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...
>
> -1
>
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