On file installation

[Fernando Apesteguía]

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Chris Rees <crees at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 14 May 2012 18:23, Fernando Apesteguía <fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm working on a port for an application written in Java and I'm
>> having some problems deciding how to install the application.
>> Previous to the installation, the WRKSRC directory contains some .jar
>> files and some directories along with some .txt files for
>> licenses, but also some .exe and .bat files _which I don't want to
>> install_. It is basically a package that contains both files for
>> windows and non-windows systems.
>>
>> I was thinking on using COPYTREE_SHARE to install everything and then
>> remove the non necessary files, but doesn't look like
>> an elegant solution. Also, I wouldn't like to explicitly specify every
>> one of the files I want to copy. Is there a way of using something
>> similar to bash's extglob so I can copy !(*.exe|*bat)? If not, how to proceed?
>>
>> I already looked at the existent ports to find something similar but
>> it seems hard to find. I also had a look at bsd.port.mk but
>> I couldn't find what I'm looking for.
>
> You can use find primaries with COPYTREE_SHARE such as;
>
> (cd ${WRKSRC}/wherever && ${COPYTREE_SHARE} \*
> ${JAVALIBDIR}/${PORTNAME}/wherever "-not -name \*.exe -and -not -name
> \*.bat"

Thanks! I think that is what I was looking for :)

I'll give it a try.

>
> Chris