Consistent --program-prefix for GNU programs

[Landon Fuller]

On Oct 9, 2006, at 20:42, Blair Zajac wrote:

> Some of our GNU ports use a --program-prefix of gnu:
>
>     findutils
>     gnutar
>     gnumake-devel
>     gsed
>     indent
>
> while others use g:
>
>     binutils
>     coreutils
>     diffutils
>     gmake
>     gpatch
>     gtime
>     gunits
>     gwhich
>     libtool
>     libtool-devel
>     m4
>
> It would be nice to have a MacPorts' standard here and it looks  
> like changing the gnu to the g ones would be less work

That'd be a distinct improvement.

>
> I'd also like all of these ports to have a variants to disable the  
> program-prefix.  Currently, only diffutils has a variant named  
> 'normal', which is not a good name in my opinion.  I'd like to see  
> a variant named no-program-prefix.

If a port depends explicitly on GNU sed, how does it determine which  
path does it use? eg, ${prefix}/bin/gsed or ${prefix}/bin/sed ?

-landonf
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