Xournal: Please, help me with my first port

Jan Henrik Sylvester me at janh.de
Sun Jan 23 16:59:39 UTC 2011


On 01/23/2011 17:35, Chris Rees wrote:
> On 23 January 2011 16:24, Jan Henrik Sylvester<me at janh.de>  wrote:
>> On 01/23/2011 11:42, Chris Rees wrote:
>>>
>>> Take a look at the new patch so far; I'm still working on Busybox at
>>> the moment, so I'm afraid I can't step too much more through it, but
>>
>> Just a question about what you did so far: Why the
>> "CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--prefix=${PREFIX}"? I have tested with a different PREFIX
>> before and it was successful -- that is what the second part of the
>> REINPLACE accomplished. What does your line improve?
>>
>> Or is it a first step, if I wanted to make the port DATADIR-safe?

Should I include that line?

(I have just retested: The port installs to the correct PREFIX without 
that line and seems to be working fine.)

>> I believe that it is correct what portlint says: "If and only if your port
>> is DATADIR-safe (that is, a user can override DATADIR when building this
>> port and the port will still work correctly) consider using DATADIR macro;
>> if you are unsure if this port is DATADIR-safe, then ignore this warning".
>> Thus, there should not be DATADIR in my pkg-plist as long as the port is not
>> DATADIR-safe.
>>
>
> Perhaps you should ignore the portlint warnings and leave it as
> share/xournal then.

Thanks.

BTW: I am going to ignore your capitalization of "makefile" in the first 
line, too, since it is non-capitalized in the porters handbook and 20210 
over 240 ports go for the non-capitalized variant.

Cheers,
Jan Henrik


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