On Sep 19, 2009, at 15:06, Mark A. Miller wrote:
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Sep 18, 2009, at 22:20, Mark A. Miller wrote:
So, ${prefix}/libexec/gnubin seems to work, and put symlinks there
for the GNU binaries by default, and get rid of this variant?
I would say so... I see Marcus already committed an update to do
this to gnutar. But now I see the with_default_names variant did
more than just install unprefixed binaries. It also installed
unprefixed manpages and whatever was in share. For gnutar, there
appears to be nothing in libexec and only info pages in share but
maybe other ports that have this variant have things in libexec,
and also manpages. Do we need "gnushare" and "gnulibexec" dirs too?
Or do we need to put bin, share and libexec directories into $
{prefix}/libexec/gnu maybe? Presumably if you have your PATH set up
so that, say, GNU sed is first, then it would be confusing to say
"man sed" and get the system's BSD sed manual...
${prefix}/libexec/gnu sounds like a good idea, although that would
involve adding an additional path to $MANPATH.
If your MANPATH is empty (as I believe we recommend), then man will
automatically search for things in all the locations specified in PATH
(that is, for every path in PATH, man will look in ../share/man for
manpages).
Though it's sounding strange for libexec/gnu to be its own prefix.
apach2, for example, uses ${prefix}/apache2 as its prefix. Granted
that violates the mtree, which I originally objected to in this
thread. :/ Guess I don't really know where it should go.
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