Postgresql82 port installation location weirdness

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 12, 2007, at 02:23, Randall Wood wrote:

> Why is the postgresql82 port installed in the file locations its  
> installed in?
>
> It is spread out strangely, and this making me pull some black  
> magic to get a port that depends on it working, that I would rather  
> not do.
>
> It installs the following data in the following places:
> --sysconfdir=${prefix}/etc/${name} \
> --bindir=${prefix}/lib/${name}/bin \
> --libdir=${prefix}/lib/${name} \
> --includedir=${prefix}/lib/${name}/include/${name} \
>
> I am porting an autoconf-based package (libgda3) that detects  
> postgres database libraries in /path/to/postgres/lib and is fairly  
> inflexible about this.
>
> I would like to suggest that maybe we need to create a space in $ 
> {prefix} where ports that need to be installed in a private  
> namespace can be installed there, such as ${prefix}/port In the  
> case of postgresql82, this would mean installing in ${prefix}/port/ 
> postgresql82 (although I would leave the conf dir where it is at)

The php5 port pulls some black magic to work with the layout of the  
mysql5 port. It's not too bad.