An install conundrum

[Paul Schmehl]

I'm working on an update to security/bro, and I plan to take over 
maintainership.  However, I've run into a problem that I don't know how to 
solve.

By default this program installs everything in /usr/local/bro.  This 
includes the docs, the binaries, the libraries, includes, everything.  I 
can use configure args to define datadir, bindir, sysconfdir, libdir and 
includedir, but that leaves the rest of the programs directories installing 
in /usr/local.  The program creates a number of directories, including 
archive, logs, policy, reports, scripts, site and var.

If I use the configure arg --prefix=${PREFIX}/bro, that solves the problem 
of the "extra" dirs and files, but then it changes --prefix, and so the 
bindir, etc. is now in the wrong place again.

Has anyone run across this type of problem?  If so, how do you solve it?

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Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/