On 2024-04-12 13:03, Matthew Phillips wrote:
On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 12:57:41PM -0700, Chris wrote:
On 2024-04-12 12:50, Matthew Phillips wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 09:30:14PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> > Kurt Hackenberg <k...@panix.com> writes:
> > > Matthew Phillips <matt...@matthewphillips.info> writes:
> > > > It's trying to install the port itself. To /usr/local/bin specifically.
> > > > It seems like it's running `make install` on the ports Makefile.
> > > From man ports(7): "package Make a binary package for the port. The
> > > port will be installed if it has not already been."
> >
> > This is both true, in that the `package` target implies the `stage`
> > target with does run `make install` in $WRKSRC, and highly misleading,
> > because the `stage` target does not install the port to your machine,
> > which would require superuser privileges, but to a staging directory,
> > which does not. The `install` target, which implies the `package`
> > target, uses `pkg add` to install the package to your machine.
>
> Thank you! This is the missing piece I didn't understand. It's starting
> to come together for me.
>
> So now I think it's a problem with the port's Makefile `install` target.
> The install target does this:
>
> install -m 755 snac $(PREFIX)/bin/snac
>
> So I think what I need to do is patch the Makefile to include DESTDIR
> like so:
>
> install -m 755 snac $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin/snac
Those should be curly braces, not parentheses, fe;
${DESTDIR}
This is inside of the project's Makefile, not the port Makefile. I'm
patching it to account for DESTDIR because PREFIX is /usr/local.
Sorry. You're correct. I assumed it was part of a pre/post.install block in
the
port Makefile. I'll shut up now. :)
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--Chris Hutchinson
