Consistent --program-prefix for GNU programs

[Blair Zajac]

Landon Fuller wrote:
> 
> 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 ?

Maybe instead, we always use --program-prefix to always have the g* named files, 
but if the +no_program_prefix variant is set, we also create symlinks for all 
the files in the bin and sbin directories.  That way we have both and everything 
can work fine.

Regards,
Blair

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