On file installation

[Chris Rees]

On 14 May 2012 18:23, Fernando Apesteguía <fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm working on a port for an application written in Java and I'm
> having some problems deciding how to install the application.
> Previous to the installation, the WRKSRC directory contains some .jar
> files and some directories along with some .txt files for
> licenses, but also some .exe and .bat files _which I don't want to
> install_. It is basically a package that contains both files for
> windows and non-windows systems.
>
> I was thinking on using COPYTREE_SHARE to install everything and then
> remove the non necessary files, but doesn't look like
> an elegant solution. Also, I wouldn't like to explicitly specify every
> one of the files I want to copy. Is there a way of using something
> similar to bash's extglob so I can copy !(*.exe|*bat)? If not, how to proceed?
>
> I already looked at the existent ports to find something similar but
> it seems hard to find. I also had a look at bsd.port.mk but
> I couldn't find what I'm looking for.

You can use find primaries with COPYTREE_SHARE such as;

(cd ${WRKSRC}/wherever && ${COPYTREE_SHARE} \*
${JAVALIBDIR}/${PORTNAME}/wherever "-not -name \*.exe -and -not -name
\*.bat"

Chris