manpath change for ports ?

[Mathieu Arnold]

Le 21/04/2017 à 00:16, Baptiste Daroussin a écrit :
> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 12:13:52AM +0200, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> Sorry but why? why not moving libdata/pkgconfig to lib/pkgconfig? what is the
> rationale?
Because a lot of build software know that on FreeBSD, the .pc file go in
libdata/pkgconfig. If we move to some other place, we'll have a
USES=pathfixmore for the next 25 years until everyone understands we
moved it some place else.


-- 
Mathieu Arnold


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