On 07/18/2012 01:50 PM, Jason Helfman wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 01:17:29PM -0400, Cole Robinson thus spake:
>> On 07/17/2012 07:39 PM, Jason Helfman wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I noticed in virt-manager, it has an exec on /usr/bin/python. In FreeBSD,
>>> this is /usr/local/bin/python. Is there a way I can change this either
>>> through a configure flag at build time, or patch a Makefile?
>>>
>>
>> Not at the moment.
>
> Doh!
>
>>
>> Hmm, the system python binary is under /usr/local? That doesn't seem right,
>> /usr/local is supposed to be where things go when a user installs things by
>> hand. For example none of the software the Fedora distributes put anything in
>> /usr/local, but by default ./configure && make install for most software roots
>> things under /usr/local.
>>
>> If freebsd is really doing that, it would probably require some makefile and
>> configure tweaking to work on both platforms. Are you just trying to get
>> virt-manager working personally, or packaging it (whatever that entails) to be
>> distributed with freebsd?
>
> Both. The default for FreeBSD is to install to /usr/local, as no software in
> our ports collection is part of our base operating system. Having
> configurability would be optimal.
>>
>>> One more bit. NLS on FreeBSD is installed to /usr/local/share/locale, and
>>> noticed in the po/Makefile:
>>>
>>> libdir = ${exec_prefix}/lib
>>> DATADIRNAME = lib
>>> itlocaledir = $(prefix)/$(DATADIRNAME)/locale
>>>
>>> I was wondering what flag I could use to get NLS to go to
>>> /usr/local/share/locale and not /usr/local/lib/locale
>>>
>>> --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/virt-manager]
>>> --htmldir=DIR html documentation [DOCDIR]
>>> --dvidir=DIR dvi documentation [DOCDIR]
>>> --pdfdir=DIR pdf documentation [DOCDIR]
>>> --psdir=DIR ps documentation [DOCDIR]
>>>
>>
>> I'm not entirely sure I follow, but I'd try playing around with --libdir or
>> --datadir.
>
> I figured I would do that, but would this change the installation path of
> anything else?
>
Possibly, you'll just have to give it a go and see. Another option would be to
find another app in bsd ports that installs gettext files, and see what they
are doing to install things to the correct location.
- Cole
