port install targets

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Feb 16, 2009, at 9:32 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>
> 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?

mysql.

> 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.

Thanks.