not installing under PREFIX

[Brooks Davis]

I'm working on a port of Sun Grid Engine and I've got a question
about an odd installation issue.  SGE is one of those poorly behaved
applictions that insists on installing all of its files under a
single directory which must be in the SGE_ROOT environmental variable
when it is run.  My port currently installs with SGE_ROOT equal to
${PREFIX}/sge which should be fine for most people, but I'd like to
support installation at an arbitrary location.  Is there a reasionable
way to do that?  The only real issue seems to be with the plist.  I
can't figure out how to have files live somewhere other then under
PREFIX.  I suppose I could do something hackish like make SGE_ROOT default
to something ${PREFIX}/${SGE_ROOT_SUFFIX} and then let the user choose
an arbitrary directory by setting PREFIX=/ and SGE_ROOT_SUFFIX to the
absolute path.

You can download a work-in-progress port from:

http://people.freebsd.org/~brooks/sge/sge.tar.gz

-- Brooks

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