port install targets

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 15, 2009, at 16:58, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:

> Port mail/dbmail
> Port mail/dbmail-devel
>
> `port dir dbmail`/work/dbmail-2.2.11/configure --help
>
> Fine tuning of the installation directories:
>   --bindir=DIR           user executables [EPREFIX/bin]
>   --sbindir=DIR          system admin executables [EPREFIX/sbin]
>   --libexecdir=DIR       program executables [EPREFIX/libexec]
>   --sysconfdir=DIR       read-only single-machine data [PREFIX/etc]
>   --sharedstatedir=DIR   modifiable architecture-independent data  
> [PREFIX/com]
>   --localstatedir=DIR    modifiable single-machine data [PREFIX/var]
>   --libdir=DIR           object code libraries [EPREFIX/lib]
>   --includedir=DIR       C header files [PREFIX/include]
>   --oldincludedir=DIR    C header files for non-gcc [/usr/include]
>   --datarootdir=DIR      read-only arch.-independent data root  
> [PREFIX/share]
>   --datadir=DIR          read-only architecture-independent data  
> [DATAROOTDIR]
>   --infodir=DIR          info documentation [DATAROOTDIR/info]
>   --localedir=DIR        locale-dependent data [DATAROOTDIR/locale]
>   --mandir=DIR           man documentation [DATAROOTDIR/man]
>   --docdir=DIR           documentation root [DATAROOTDIR/doc/PACKAGE]
>   --htmldir=DIR          html documentation [DOCDIR]
>   --dvidir=DIR           dvi documentation [DOCDIR]
>   --pdfdir=DIR           pdf documentation [DOCDIR]
>   --psdir=DIR            ps documentation [DOCDIR]
>
>
> Should I make most of the PREFIX/xxx into ${prefix}/dbmail22/xxx?
>
> I seem to see a lot of that in macports.

Where do you see that?

I would say you should not insert an additional directory "dbmail22"  
into the hierarchy unless you need to support multiple ports for  
multiple versions of the software active simultaneously. But if  
you're only talking about dbmail and dbmail-devel, then it is not  
expected to be able to use them simultaneously; it is expected for  
both to install files to the same places and for only one to be  
active simultaneously.