port to install that is a collection of py scripts and a small executable in a folder ...

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 12, 2016, at 23:45, Ken Cunningham <ken.cunningham.webuse at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> I thought I'd work on a new requested port, sshuttle. Looks like something I might want to use myself.
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> I have it downloading, building, and running from the build folder, but there is no "make install" component. In the build folder after the build there turns out to be a small mac application (I know what to do with that part of it), and a collection of python scripts, with a small executable that provides the command-line version of the port. The command-line version is designed to be run from this folder, as it calls folder-local python scripts.
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> To make it install as a command line app, I could xinstall the relevant parts of the build folder into ${prefix}/libexec/sshuttle, and then use a system call to symlink the main binary  back into
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> ${prefix}/bin
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> Is that the recommended way to manage a port like this?

Sounds good to me, except please use the "ln" Tcl command (works the same as the command line ln program) rather than using system to run the ln program.