Help needed by first-timer porter

[Manish Jain]

On 08/04/17 13:16, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> 04.08.2017 12:43, Manish Jain пишет:
> 
>> The question is, at this stage, where do I get the default
>> stage-definitions file from. If I specify stage-definitions among the
>> package's listing, it will go into one of the standard directories,
>> which is not what I want.
> 
> Please re-read Porter's Handbook:
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/book.html
> 
> It says a port must install all its files under ${PREFIX} only (/usr/local by default).
> There is DATADIR for such shared files (expanded to PREFIX/share/PORTNAME).
> You should install it there using INSTALL_DATA macro and use %%DATADIR%% in the pkg-plist,
> so it gets to /usr/local/share/mkdesktop/ assuming you name your port "mkdesktop".
> 

Thanks Eugene for DATADIR : Just what I was looking for.

Regards
Manish Jain