On 16-07-11 17:57:38, Amit Kulkarni wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 4:51 PM, Edgar Pettijohn <ed...@pettijohn-web.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On 16-07-11 09:21:18, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > > On 2016/07/10 23:54, Edgar Pettijohn wrote:
> > > > I'm attempting to port libxlsxwriter. The problem I'm having is
> > > > that I can't seem to get the examples to install correctly.
> > > >
> > > > In the Makefile I have this:
> > > > ${INSTALL_DATA_DIR} ${PREFIX}/share/examples/libxlsxwriter
> > > > ${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/examples/*.c
> > ${PREFIX}/share/examples/libxlsxwriter/
> > > >
> > > > pkg/PLIST shows all of the relevent files.
> > > >
> > > > After $ make fake everything looks good in
> > /usr/ports/pobj/etc/etc/fake-i386/etc/etc
> > > >
> > > > However, after $ make build install the
> > /usr/local/share/examples/libxlsxwriter
> > > > directory doesn't exist and obviously none of its intended files
> > either.
> > > >
> > > > Everything else works correctly. I can compile test programs and link
> > with
> > > > -lxlsxwriter
> > > > --
> > > > Edgar Pettijohn
> > > >
> > >
> > > Perhaps you built a package before adding the examples and didn't remove
> > it
> > > before installing?
> > >
> > I think I may have found the issue. The plist under /usr/ports/plist/...
> > still
> > had the wrong info. Should this have been fixed by $ make update-plist?
> > If so
> > there may be a bug involved. If not I guess I should double check there
> > in the
> > future.
> >
>
> When I try out new ports, I do the following since I don't build ports in
> bulk now (If you wipe out packages you lose 1-2 days of built package data,
> so be extremely careful). I would probably add a pattern to remove
> MY_NEW_PORT to /usr/ports/packages as a adaptation below.
>
> pkg_delete MY_NEW_PORT
> rm -rf /usr/ports/plist
> rm -rf /usr/ports/packages
> rm -rf /usr/ports/pobj
> make install
>
This has proven to be excellent advice. Probably needs to make its way into
the porting guide somewhere.
> Hope that helps you out. I think this is a known thing, sicne you are
> tweaking the new port to get it right. I expect most ports people know this.
--
Edgar Pettijohn
