Re: Issue with install prefix

> On 18. Jun 2022, at 17:20, jbo@insane.engineer wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello guys,
> 
> Please excuse the non-telling subject of this e-mail. I am a bit lost here and don't exactly understand where the problem I'm about to outline originates form.
> 
> A few weeks ago, I created a port of a C++17 library which is built using CMake. Everything went very smoothly.
> Now I wanted to create another port, also of a C++17 library which is built using CMake. While the port itself compiles & installs successfully, I cannot pass `make check-plist`.
> 
> What I basically see happening is that the port builds and installs correctly but it installs under /usr/local/ rather than in $STAGEDIR/usr/local/
> 
> The only notable difference between this port and the one I already published is that this one depends on Qt5 libraries. However, I doubt that this has an effect.
> 
> Building & installing the library manually (outside of FreeBSD's port infrastructure) allows me to control where the various files are being installed by CMake by setting CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX.
> This leads me to believe that there is nothing inherently wrong with the upstream CMake scripts.
> 
> I'm not really sure what to ask for other than: Where do I go from here? 


Step 1 would be sharing the published port and the one not published yet with the list, so this isn’t purely theoretical ;)

-m