On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 04:22:17PM -0500, circuit6engineering wrote: > On 02/19/2013 04:03 PM, Landry Breuil wrote: > >On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 03:18:40PM -0500, circuit6engineering wrote: > >>I'm going to tinker with [werc][1] under chroot'ed Apache. > >> > >>[1]: http://werc.cat-v.org/ > >> > >>werc requires plan9port. If I attempt to build plan9port with: > >> > >>make LOCALBASE=/var/www > >>... > >>===> Extracting for plan9port-20120508p0 > >>/bin/sh: bzip2: not found > >>tar: End of archive volume 1 reached > >>tar: Sorry, unable to determine archive format. > >>*** Error code 1 > >>... > >> > >>but 'make install' works as expected. I can copy > >>/usr/local/plan9/bin to /var/www/bin > >> > >>and continue from there but I am curious why the LOCALBASE method > >>failed. Any speculations or comments on best practices? > > > >You're looking for PREFIX. Read bsd.port.mk(5) to learn about the > >differences between PREFIX, TRUEPREFIX and LOCALBASE. > > > >Landry > > > > Thanks! > > The ports man page doesn't mention PREFIX and says this: > > LOCALBASE Where to install things in general... > > > Whereas the bsd.port.mk man page says this: > > LOCALBASE where other ports have already been installed... > PREFIX Base directory for the current port installation... > > > Which is quite a bit more useful. Maybe the ports man page could use > a little work. I haven't noticed a [email protected] mailing list. I > would like to know more about how the community discusses and > updates the documentation. Any pointers?
No, that's intentional. ports(7) is pretty high level and focuses on how to *use* the ports tree. LOCALBASE kind of belong there, as a general thingy, whereas bsd.port.mk(5) *is* the main documentation entry point for the actual porting stuff. Don't duplicate that information. It's already difficult enough trying to keep things synchronized. If anything the ports(7) page is probably too long and contains some stuff that is already explained elsewhere.
