[76786] trunk/dports/sysutils/coreutils/Portfile

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Tue Mar 8 13:42:14 PST 2011


On Mar 8, 2011, at 10:09, raimue at macports.org wrote:

> Revision: 76786
>          http://trac.macports.org/changeset/76786
> Author:   raimue at macports.org
> Date:     2011-03-08 08:09:40 -0800 (Tue, 08 Mar 2011)
> Log Message:
> -----------
> sysutils/coreutils: Add a note about libexec/gnubin/
> 
> Modified Paths:
> --------------
>    trunk/dports/sysutils/coreutils/Portfile
> 
> Modified: trunk/dports/sysutils/coreutils/Portfile
> ===================================================================
> --- trunk/dports/sysutils/coreutils/Portfile	2011-03-08 16:01:22 UTC (rev 76785)
> +++ trunk/dports/sysutils/coreutils/Portfile	2011-03-08 16:09:40 UTC (rev 76786)
> @@ -62,3 +62,11 @@
> # to 'yes' to run even more expensive tests.
> test.run        yes
> test.target     check
> +
> +notes "
> +    The tools provided by GNU coreutils are prefixed with the character 'g' by default to distinguish them from the BSD commands.
> +    For example, cp becomes gcp and ls becomes gls.
> +
> +    If you want to use the GNU tools by default, add this directory to the front of your PATH environment variable:
> +        ${prefix}/libexec/gnubin/
> +"

Can you add the same note to all the other ports that install things into gnubin?

diffutils
findutils
gnetcat
gnutar
gsed
gwhich
m4


Thanks.





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