not installing under PREFIX

Alexander Leidinger Alexander at Leidinger.net
Tue Jul 15 12:56:38 PDT 2003


On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 07:44:58 -0700
Brooks Davis <brooks at one-eyed-alien.net> wrote:

> > > 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
> > 
> > Use PLIST_SUB (it's used in many ports, so you should find enough
> > examples).
> 
> I tried that, but I couldn't figure out what to sub.  Unless I'm missing
> something, ${PREFIX} still gets prepended to lines containing absolute
> paths.

Yes, so why not sub the "sge" part above? If someone wants a non
standard location, he/she has to set PREFIX _and_ "SGEBASE", the result
will end up in '$PREFIX/$SGEBASE'.

Bye,
Alexander.

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