manpath change for ports ?

[Mathieu Arnold]

Le 20/04/2017 à 23:21, Baptiste Daroussin a écrit :
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 11:18:14PM +0200, Koop Mast wrote:
>> On Tue, 2017-03-07 at 00:56 +0100, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I would like to propose a change in the localbase hier for ports
>>>
>>> I think we should add /usr/local/share/man in the manpath along with
>>> at first
>>> and maybe instead of in long term.
>>>
>>> The reason is:
>>> - /usr/local/share/man seems more consistent to me with base which
>>> have:
>>>   /usr/share/man
>>> - It will remove lots of patches from the ports tree where were we
>>> need to patch
>>>   upstream build system to install in a non usual path.
>>>
>>> My proposal is to add to the manpath /usr/local/share/man in default
>>> man(1)
>>> command in FreeBSD 12 (MFCed to 11-STABLE)
>>>
>>> and either provide an errata for 11.0/10.3 or a
>>> /usr/local/etc/man.d/something.conf via a port or something like that
>>> for those
>>> two, what do you think?
>>>
>>> For the same reason I would like to allow porters to stop patching
>>> (with pathfix
>>> or anything else) the path for pkgconfig files and allow
>>> /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig along with the current
>>> /usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig:/usr/libdata/pkgconfig
>>>
>>> Which will also remove tons of hacks from the ports tree.
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Bapt
>> Hello,
>>
>> I recently committed the USES for the meson build system to ports. This
>> USES configures the meson build system with some default variables
>> which includes the location of the man pages. This setting is just a
>> flag to the meson command so it easy to change.
>>
>> Meson also handles the generation and installation of pkg-config files
>> that a port wants. The problem is that this is handled by the script
>> itself and there is no way to configure it, so we need to hack the
>> meson port to change it from lib/pkg-config to libdata/pkg-config like
>> we currently are using. (1) Or add a hack to meson.mk to move the pkg-
>> config to the right location (evil++ imho).
>>
>> My point I want to make is that currently there is only 1 port build
>> via the meson system (graphics/graphene). Should we change man/pkg-
>> config file locations now, it very easy. If we want to change them
>> later we will need to mass bump every meson build port. It is important
>> to note that GStreamer and GNOME are moving over to using meson instead
>> of autotools and that Wayland, Xorg en Mesa are exploring want is
>> needed to make the switch. So I think it important that the decision
>> what to do is done now and that we stick with it.
>>
>> Reading the rest of the thread it seems nobody is really against the
>> proposed change of man and pkg-config path's. So how does one submit a
>> policy change like this? I'm also not sure I'm the right person to push
>> this, I just got back from a break and I don't want to really deal with
>> something super high profile right away.
>>
>> -Koop
>>
>> (1) I would like to see lib/pkg-config back in the search path of
>> pkgconf since that means I don't have to do a crash course python
>> programming.
> Would be nice is portmgr can step on this, let's reduce this discussion for now
> on pkgconf.


I am waiting on an exp-run to fix this once and for all.

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=218067

When that is committed, anything can be added to the path pkgconfig
searches, ports will always install it in the right place.


-- 
Mathieu Arnold


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