On file installation

[Chris Rees]

On 15 May 2012 18:14, Fernando Apesteguía <fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Fernando Apesteguía
> <fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Chris Rees <crees at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> On 14 May 2012 18:23, Fernando Apesteguía <fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm working on a port for an application written in Java and I'm
>>>> having some problems deciding how to install the application.
>>>> Previous to the installation, the WRKSRC directory contains some .jar
>>>> files and some directories along with some .txt files for
>>>> licenses, but also some .exe and .bat files _which I don't want to
>>>> install_. It is basically a package that contains both files for
>>>> windows and non-windows systems.
>>>>
>>>> I was thinking on using COPYTREE_SHARE to install everything and then
>>>> remove the non necessary files, but doesn't look like
>>>> an elegant solution. Also, I wouldn't like to explicitly specify every
>>>> one of the files I want to copy. Is there a way of using something
>>>> similar to bash's extglob so I can copy !(*.exe|*bat)? If not, how to proceed?
>>>>
>>>> I already looked at the existent ports to find something similar but
>>>> it seems hard to find. I also had a look at bsd.port.mk but
>>>> I couldn't find what I'm looking for.
>>>
>>> You can use find primaries with COPYTREE_SHARE such as;
>>>
>>> (cd ${WRKSRC}/wherever && ${COPYTREE_SHARE} \*
>>> ${JAVALIBDIR}/${PORTNAME}/wherever "-not -name \*.exe -and -not -name
>>> \*.bat"
>>
>> Thanks! I think that is what I was looking for :)
>
> Sorry guys, but I think I need more help :). I tried with the following line:
>
> ( cd ${WRKSRC}/JDownloader && ${COPYTREE_SHARE} \*
> ${PREFIX}/${PORTNAME}/ "! -name \*.exe" )
>
> but it doesn't seem to follow primaries and it still installs the .exe
> files. I just tried with:
>
> ( cd ${WRKSRC}/JDownloader && ${COPYTREE_SHARE} \*
> ${PREFIX}/${PORTNAME}/ "! -name JDownloader.exe" )
>
> and check that effectively the file is not installed so I suppose this
> has something to do with quoting and escaping special characters (the
> asterisk). I found the following line in audio/xmp/Makefile:
>
> ( cd ${WRKSRC}/docs && ${COPYTREE_SHARE} \* \
>                ${DOCSDIR} '! ( -name Makefile -or -name xmp.1 \
>                -or -name *.bak -or -name *.orig )' )
>
> that seems pretty close to what I'm trying to do, so I tried with this:
>
> ( cd ${WRKSRC}/JDownloader && ${COPYTREE_SHARE} \*
> ${PREFIX}/${PORTNAME}/ '! ( -name *.exe )' )
>
> but then, the asterisk is expanded and find fails:
>
> find: JDownloader.exe: unknown primary or operator
>
> what am I doing wrong?

Escape the *;

(cd ${WRKSRC}/JDownloader && ${COPYTREE_SHARE} \* ${PREFIX}/${PORTNAME}/
 '! ( -name \*.exe )' )

Chris