Re: Correct install locations for things using the base system make infrastructure

On 8/23/23 17:15, Mark Johnston wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 10:04:45PM +0100, David Chisnall wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I’ve been fighting this for over an hour and I presume someone else has done it in the past.  If something is built using the BSD bsd.prog.mk build goo, what do I need to do in the ports infrastructure to make sure that BINDIR and MANDIR are set, to make it install things in the right places?
>>
>> So far, every invocation I’ve tried has made things differently wrong and the porters handbook is completely silent on the case of bmake.  Any help gratefully received!
> 
> ftp/netdumpd does this.  The recipe seems to be:
> 
> MAKE_ARGS+=BINDIR=${PREFIX}/bin
> 
> etc.
> 

Right, the two key things I noted when adding sysutils/quickjail is that 
with bsd.prog.mk you'll need USES=uidfix, and then

MAKE_ENV+=      BINDIR="${PREFIX}/bin" \ 

                 MANDIR="${PREFIX}/share/man/man" 


(Both of which I ${MKDIR} in pre-install)

Thanks,

Kyle Evans