Le 21/04/2017 à 00:16, Baptiste Daroussin a écrit : > On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 12:13:52AM +0200, Mathieu Arnold wrote: >> Le 20/04/2017 à 23:21, Baptiste Daroussin a écrit : >>> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 11:18:14PM +0200, Koop Mast wrote: >>>> On Tue, 2017-03-07 at 00:56 +0100, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> I would like to propose a change in the localbase hier for ports >>>>> >>>>> I think we should add /usr/local/share/man in the manpath along with >>>>> at first >>>>> and maybe instead of in long term. >>>>> >>>>> The reason is: >>>>> - /usr/local/share/man seems more consistent to me with base which >>>>> have: >>>>> /usr/share/man >>>>> - It will remove lots of patches from the ports tree where were we >>>>> need to patch >>>>> upstream build system to install in a non usual path. >>>>> >>>>> My proposal is to add to the manpath /usr/local/share/man in default >>>>> man(1) >>>>> command in FreeBSD 12 (MFCed to 11-STABLE) >>>>> >>>>> and either provide an errata for 11.0/10.3 or a >>>>> /usr/local/etc/man.d/something.conf via a port or something like that >>>>> for those >>>>> two, what do you think? >>>>> >>>>> For the same reason I would like to allow porters to stop patching >>>>> (with pathfix >>>>> or anything else) the path for pkgconfig files and allow >>>>> /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig along with the current >>>>> /usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig:/usr/libdata/pkgconfig >>>>> >>>>> Which will also remove tons of hacks from the ports tree. >>>>> >>>>> What do you think? >>>>> >>>>> Best regards, >>>>> Bapt >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I recently committed the USES for the meson build system to ports. This >>>> USES configures the meson build system with some default variables >>>> which includes the location of the man pages. This setting is just a >>>> flag to the meson command so it easy to change. >>>> >>>> Meson also handles the generation and installation of pkg-config files >>>> that a port wants. The problem is that this is handled by the script >>>> itself and there is no way to configure it, so we need to hack the >>>> meson port to change it from lib/pkg-config to libdata/pkg-config like >>>> we currently are using. (1) Or add a hack to meson.mk to move the pkg- >>>> config to the right location (evil++ imho). >>>> >>>> My point I want to make is that currently there is only 1 port build >>>> via the meson system (graphics/graphene). Should we change man/pkg- >>>> config file locations now, it very easy. If we want to change them >>>> later we will need to mass bump every meson build port. It is important >>>> to note that GStreamer and GNOME are moving over to using meson instead >>>> of autotools and that Wayland, Xorg en Mesa are exploring want is >>>> needed to make the switch. So I think it important that the decision >>>> what to do is done now and that we stick with it. >>>> >>>> Reading the rest of the thread it seems nobody is really against the >>>> proposed change of man and pkg-config path's. So how does one submit a >>>> policy change like this? I'm also not sure I'm the right person to push >>>> this, I just got back from a break and I don't want to really deal with >>>> something super high profile right away. >>>> >>>> -Koop >>>> >>>> (1) I would like to see lib/pkg-config back in the search path of >>>> pkgconf since that means I don't have to do a crash course python >>>> programming. >>> Would be nice is portmgr can step on this, let's reduce this discussion for >>> now >>> on pkgconf. >> >> I am waiting on an exp-run to fix this once and for all. >> >> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=218067 >> >> When that is committed, anything can be added to the path pkgconfig >> searches, ports will always install it in the right place. >> > Sorry but why? why not moving libdata/pkgconfig to lib/pkgconfig? what is the > rationale? Because a lot of build software know that on FreeBSD, the .pc file go in libdata/pkgconfig. If we move to some other place, we'll have a USES=pathfixmore for the next 25 years until everyone understands we moved it some place else.
-- Mathieu Arnold
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