hier 7 question

[Sahil Tandon]

* Marc Spitzer <mspitzer at gmail.com> [05-21-2008]:

> On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Brooks Davis <brooks at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 08:20:03PM -0400, Marc Spitzer wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I am porting ATF, http://www.netbsd.org/~jmmv/atf/, a unit testing
> >> framework for C, C++ and Shell.  The thing is is that it installs a
> >> bunch of self tests in ${PREFIX}/tests/atf.  Is this the right place
> >> for it?  From Hier(7) binaries should not go under share/.  Otherwise
> >> I think it is done.  Personally I think the tests/port could be a
> >> handy thing to have.  What is your opinion/advice on this?
> >
> > libexec/ seems like it might be the right place.
> >
> 
> Forgive me for an ignorant question but assuming I can not figure out
> how to add a knob onto the configure script,  what would be the proper
> way to move the files under libexec?  I could just move ${PREFIX}/test
> to ${PREFIX}/libexec but that seems extra hackish.  I do not want a
> solution but a pointer would be nice.

It's not hackish to put executables in libexec.  See 5.14.5 of the Porter's 
Handbook and adjust your Makefile to install the file(s) there.

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Sahil Tandon <sahil at tandon.net>