Non-prefix safe ports

[Jan Beich]

"John Hein" <jh-fbml at snkmail.com> writes:

> Jan Beich wrote at 01:18 +0100 on Nov 22, 2015:
>
>  > "Mikhail T." <mi+thun at aldan.algebra.com> writes:
>  > 
>  > > Building out a new machine from scratch using /opt (rather than the
>  > > usual /usr/local) as LOCALBASE, I found the following two ports, which
>  > > break:
>  > 
>  > poudriere testport -P would have been easier. That said it would be nice
>  > to have them as periodic exp-runs. I'm sure there're way more ports
>  > with broken PREFIX != LOCALBASE e.g., anything lua-*.
>  > 
>  > >
>  > >   * multimedia/openh264 - the files built by the port get installed into
>  > >     stage/usr/local/... instead of stage/opt -- I had to manually move
>  > >     the files around before "make install" succeeded
>  > 
>  > This affects all ports with USES=webplugin. Fixing isn't trivial, so
>  > better file a bug or it will be forgotten.
>  > 
>  > >   * graphics/gtk-update-icon-cache - at configure-stage, the port
>  > >     wrongly complaints, that the cairo installed on the system does not
>  > >     support X11. After I created a symlink: /usr/local -> ../opt, the
>  > >     problem went away.
>  > 
>  > make(1) flow control is evaluated at parsing time. Try using sh(1)
>  > conditional to postpone it until the target is run.
>
> I've had this patch in my ports tree forever - one of those patches
> for which I just never got around to the last step: actually
> submitting a bug.  Instead of hard-coding a path, it uses the
> pkg-config tool to detect.  But it postpones the detection until
> the target just as Jan did.

The issue is actually a regression unrelated to PREFIX != LOCALBASE. I've
submitted your version (slightly improved) on Phabricator and added a comment
to avoid repeating it again.

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=166279
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4260

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X11 check indicates a deficiency in the framework. There's currently no
standard way to require some options enabled in dependencies.
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