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<!-- $NetBSD: build.xml,v 1.38 2006/11/23 11:47:54 yyamano Exp $ -->
<chapter id="build">
<title>The build process</title>
<sect1 id="build.intro">
<title>Introduction</title>
<para>This chapter gives a detailed description on how a package is
built. Building a package is separated into different
<emphasis>phases</emphasis> (for example <varname>fetch</varname>,
<varname>build</varname>, <varname>install</varname>), all of which are
described in the following sections. Each phase is splitted into
so-called <emphasis>stages</emphasis>, which take the name of the
containing phase, prefixed by one of <varname>pre-</varname>,
<varname>do-</varname> or <varname>post-</varname>. (Examples are
<varname>pre-configure</varname>, <varname>post-build</varname>.) Most
of the actual work is done in the <varname>do-*</varname> stages.</para>
<para>The basic steps for building a program are always the same. First
the program's source (<emphasis>distfile</emphasis>) must be brought to
the local system and then extracted. After any pkgsrc-specific patches
to compile properly are applied, the software can be configured, then
built (usually by compiling), and finally the generated binaries, etc.
can be put into place on the system.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="build.prefix">
<title>Program location</title>
<para>Before outlining the process performed by the &os; package system in
the next section, here's a brief discussion on where programs are
installed, and which variables influence this.</para>
<para>The automatic variable <varname>PREFIX</varname> indicates
where all files of the final program shall be installed. It is
usually set to <varname>LOCALBASE</varname>
(<filename>/usr/pkg</filename>), or <varname>CROSSBASE</varname>
for pkgs in the <filename>cross</filename> category. The value of
<varname>PREFIX</varname> needs to be put
into the various places in the program's source where paths to
these files are encoded. See <xref
linkend="components.patches"/> and <xref
linkend="fixes.libtool"/> for more details.</para>
<para>When choosing which of these variables to use,
follow the following rules:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para><varname>PREFIX</varname> always points to the location
where the current pkg will be installed. When referring to a
pkg's own installation path, use
<quote>${PREFIX}</quote>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><varname>LOCALBASE</varname> is where all non-X11 pkgs
are installed. If you need to construct a -I or -L argument
to the compiler to find includes and libraries installed by
another non-X11 pkg, use <quote>${LOCALBASE}</quote>. The name
<varname>LOCALBASE</varname> stems from FreeBSD, which
installed all packages in <filename>/usr/local</filename>. As
pkgsrc leaves <filename>/usr/local</filename> for the system
administrator, this variable is a misnomer.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><varname>X11BASE</varname> is where the actual X11
distribution (from xsrc, etc.) is installed. When looking for
<emphasis>standard</emphasis> X11 includes (not those
installed by a package), use <quote>${X11BASE}</quote>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>X11-based packages are special in that they may be
installed in either <varname>X11BASE</varname> or
<varname>LOCALBASE</varname>.</para>
<para>Usually, X11 packages should be installed under
<varname>LOCALBASE</varname> whenever possible. Note that you
will need to include
<filename>../../mk/x11.buildlink3.mk</filename> in them to
request the presence of X11 and to get the right compilation
flags.</para>
<para>Even though, there are some packages that cannot be installed
under <varname>LOCALBASE</varname>: those that come with app-defaults
files. These packages are special and they must be placed under
<varname>X11BASE</varname>. To accomplish this, set either
<varname>USE_X11BASE</varname> or <varname>USE_IMAKE</varname> in
your package.</para>
<para>Some notes: If you need
to find includes or libraries installed by a pkg that has
<varname>USE_IMAKE</varname> or <varname>USE_X11BASE</varname> in
its pkg <filename>Makefile</filename>, you need to look in
<emphasis>both</emphasis> <filename>${X11BASE}</filename> and
<filename>${LOCALBASE}</filename>. To force installation of
all X11 packages in <varname>LOCALBASE</varname>, the
<filename role="pkg">pkgtools/xpkgwedge</filename> package
is enabled by default.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><varname>X11PREFIX</varname> should be used to refer to
the installed location of an X11
package. <varname>X11PREFIX</varname> will be set to
<varname>X11BASE</varname> if xpkgwedge is not installed, and
to <varname>LOCALBASE</varname> if xpkgwedge is
installed.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>If xpkgwedge is installed, it is possible to have some
packages installed in <varname>X11BASE</varname> and some in
<varname>LOCALBASE</varname>. To determine the prefix of an
installed package, the <varname>EVAL_PREFIX</varname>
definition can be used. It takes pairs in the format
<quote>DIRNAME=<package></quote>, and the &man.make.1;
variable <varname>DIRNAME</varname> will be set to the prefix
of the installed package <package>, or
<quote>${X11PREFIX}</quote> if the package is not
installed.</para>
<para>This is best illustrated by example.</para>
<para>The following lines are taken from
<filename>pkgsrc/wm/scwm/Makefile</filename>:</para>
<programlisting>
EVAL_PREFIX+= GTKDIR=gtk+
CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --with-guile-prefix=${LOCALBASE:Q}
CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --with-gtk-prefix=${GTKDIR:Q}
CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --enable-multibyte
</programlisting>
<para>Specific defaults can be defined for the packages
evaluated using <varname>EVAL_PREFIX</varname>, by using a
definition of the form:</para>
<programlisting>
GTKDIR_DEFAULT= ${LOCALBASE}
</programlisting>
<para>where <varname>GTKDIR</varname> corresponds
to the first definition in
the <varname>EVAL_PREFIX</varname> pair.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Within <filename>${PREFIX}</filename>, packages should
install files according to &man.hier.7;, with the exception that
manual pages go into <filename>${PREFIX}/man</filename>, not
<filename>${PREFIX}/share/man</filename>.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="build.builddirs">
<title>Directories used during the build process</title>
<para>When building a package, a number of directories is used to store
source files, temporary files, pkgsrc-internal files, and so on. These
directories are explained here.</para>
<para>Some of the directory variables contain relative pathnames. There
are two common base directories for these relative directories:
<varname>PKGSRCDIR/PKGPATH</varname> is used for directories that are
pkgsrc-specific. <varname>WRKSRC</varname> is used for directories
inside the package itself.</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term><varname>PKGSRCDIR</varname></term>
<listitem><para>This is an absolute pathname that points to the pkgsrc
root directory. Generally, you don't need
it.</para></listitem></varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><varname>PKGPATH</varname></term>
<listitem><para>This is a pathname relative to
<varname>PKGSRCDIR</varname> that points to the current
package.</para></listitem></varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><varname>WRKDIR</varname></term>
<listitem><para>This is an absolute pathname pointing to the directory
where all work takes place. The distfiles are extracted to this
directory. It also contains temporary directories and log files used by
the various pkgsrc frameworks, like <emphasis>buildlink</emphasis> or
the <emphasis>wrappers</emphasis>.</para></listitem></varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><varname>WRKSRC</varname></term>
<listitem><para>This is an absolute pathname pointing to the directory
where the distfiles are extracted. It is usually a direct subdirectory
of <varname>WRKDIR</varname>, and often it's the only directory entry
that isn't hidden. This variable may be changed by a package
<filename>Makefile</filename>.</para></listitem></varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="build.running">
<title>Running a phase</title>
<para>You can run a particular phase by typing <command>make
phase</command>, where <emphasis>phase</emphasis> is the name of the
phase. This will automatically run all phases that are required for this
phase. The default phase is <varname>build</varname>, that is, when you
run <command>make</command> without parameters in a package directory,
the package will be built, but not installed.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="build.fetch">
<title>The <emphasis>fetch</emphasis> phase</title>
<para>The first step in building a package is to fetch the
distribution files (distfiles) from the sites that are providing
them. This is the task of the <emphasis>fetch</emphasis>
phase.</para>
<sect2 id="build.fetch.what">
<title>What to fetch and where to get it from</title>
<para>In simple cases, <varname>MASTER_SITES</varname>
defines all URLs from where the distfile, whose name is
derived from the <varname>DISTNAME</varname> variable, is
fetched. The more complicated cases are described
below.</para>
<para>The variable <varname>DISTFILES</varname> specifies
the list of distfiles that have to be fetched. Its value
defaults to <literal>${DISTNAME}${EXTRACT_SUFX}</literal>,
so that most packages don't need to define it at all.
<varname>EXTRACT_SUFX</varname> is
<literal>.tar.gz</literal> by default, but can be changed
freely. Note that if your package requires additional
distfiles to the default one, you cannot just append the
additional filenames using the <literal>+=</literal>
operator, but you have write for example:</para>
<programlisting>
DISTFILES= ${DISTNAME}${EXTRACT_SUFX} additional-files.tar.gz
</programlisting>
<para>Each distfile is fetched from a list of sites, usually
<varname>MASTER_SITES</varname>. If the package has multiple
<varname>DISTFILES</varname> or multiple
<varname>PATCHFILES</varname> from different sites, you can
set
<varname>SITES.<replaceable>distfile</replaceable></varname>
to the list of URLs where the file
<filename><replaceable>distfile</replaceable></filename>
(including the suffix) can be found.</para>
<programlisting>
DISTFILES= ${DISTNAME}${EXTRACT_SUFX}
DISTFILES+= foo-file.tar.gz
SITES.foo-file.tar.gz= \
http://www.somewhere.com/somehow/ \
http://www.somewhereelse.com/mirror/somehow/
</programlisting>
<para>When actually fetching the distfiles, each item from
<varname>MASTER_SITES</varname> or
<varname>SITES.*</varname> gets the name of each distfile
appended to it, without an intermediate slash. Therefore,
all site values have to end with a slash or other separator
character. This allows for example to set
<varname>MASTER_SITES</varname> to a URL of a CGI script
that gets the name of the distfile as a parameter. In this
case, the definition would look like:</para>
<programlisting>
MASTER_SITES= http://www.example.com/download.cgi?file=
</programlisting>
<para>There are some predefined values for
<varname>MASTER_SITES</varname>, which can be used in
packages. The names of the variables should speak for
themselves.</para>
<!-- sort mk/fetch/sites.mk | sed -n 's/\(^MA[A-Z_]*\).*/ ${\1}/p' -->
<programlisting>
${MASTER_SITE_APACHE}
${MASTER_SITE_BACKUP}
${MASTER_SITE_CYGWIN}
${MASTER_SITE_DEBIAN}
${MASTER_SITE_FREEBSD}
${MASTER_SITE_FREEBSD_LOCAL}
${MASTER_SITE_GNOME}
${MASTER_SITE_GNU}
${MASTER_SITE_GNUSTEP}
${MASTER_SITE_IFARCHIVE}
${MASTER_SITE_KDE}
${MASTER_SITE_MOZILLA}
${MASTER_SITE_MYSQL}
${MASTER_SITE_OPENOFFICE}
${MASTER_SITE_PERL_CPAN}
${MASTER_SITE_PGSQL}
${MASTER_SITE_R_CRAN}
${MASTER_SITE_SOURCEFORGE}
${MASTER_SITE_SOURCEFORGE_JP}
${MASTER_SITE_SUNSITE}
${MASTER_SITE_SUSE}
${MASTER_SITE_TEX_CTAN}
${MASTER_SITE_XCONTRIB}
${MASTER_SITE_XEMACS}
</programlisting>
<para>Some explanations for the less self-explaining ones:
<varname>MASTER_SITE_BACKUP</varname> contains backup sites
for packages that are maintained in <ulink
url="ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org:/pub/NetBSD/packages/distfiles/${DIST_SUBDIR}"
/>. <varname>MASTER_SITE_LOCAL</varname> contains local
package source distributions that are maintained in <ulink
url="ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org:/pub/NetBSD/packages/distfiles/LOCAL_PORTS/"
/>.</para>
<para>If you choose one of these predefined sites, you may
want to specify a subdirectory of that site. Since these
macros may expand to more than one actual site, you
<emphasis>must</emphasis> use the following construct to
specify a subdirectory:</para>
<programlisting>
MASTER_SITES= ${MASTER_SITE_GNU:=subdirectory/name/}
MASTER_SITES= ${MASTER_SITE_SOURCEFORGE:=project_name/}
</programlisting>
<para>Note the trailing slash after the subdirectory
name.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="build.fetch.how">
<title>How are the files fetched?</title>
<para>The <emphasis>fetch</emphasis> phase makes sure that
all the distfiles exist in a local directory
(<varname>DISTDIR</varname>), which can be set by the pkgsrc
user). If the files do not exist, they are fetched using
commands of the form</para>
<programlisting>
${FETCH_CMD} ${FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS} ${site}${file} ${FETCH_AFTER_ARGS}
</programlisting>
<para>where <literal>${site}</literal> varies through
several possibilities in turn: first,
<varname>MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE</varname> is tried, then the
sites specified in either <varname>SITES.file</varname> if
defined, else <varname>MASTER_SITES</varname> or
<varname>PATCH_SITES</varname>, as applies, then finally the
value of <varname>MASTER_SITE_BACKUP</varname>. The order of
all except the first and the last can be optionally sorted
by the user, via setting either
<varname>MASTER_SORT_RANDOM</varname>, and
<varname>MASTER_SORT_AWK</varname> or
<varname>MASTER_SORT_REGEX</varname>.</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="build.checksum">
<title>The <emphasis>checksum</emphasis> phase</title>
<para>After the distfile(s) are fetched, their checksum is
generated and compared with the checksums stored in the
distinfo file. If the checksums don't match, the build is
aborted. This is to ensure the same distfile is used for
building, and that the distfile wasn't changed, e.g. by some
malign force, deliberately changed distfiles on the master
distribution site or network lossage.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="build.extract">
<title>The <emphasis>extract</emphasis> phase</title>
<para>When the distfiles are present on the local system, they
need to be extracted, as they usually come in the form of some
compressed archive format.</para>
<para>By default, all <varname>DISTFILES</varname> are
extracted. If you only need some of them, you can set the
<varname>EXTRACT_ONLY</varname> variable to the list of those
files.</para>
<para>Extracting the files is usually done by a little
program, <filename>mk/extract/extract</filename>, which
already knows how to extract various archive formats, so most
likely you will not need to change anything here. But if you
need, the following variables may help you:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term><varname>EXTRACT_OPTS_{BIN,LHA,PAX,RAR,TAR,ZIP,ZOO}</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Use these variables to override the default
options for an extract command, which are defined in
<filename>mk/extract/extract</filename>.</para></listitem></varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><varname>EXTRACT_USING</varname></term>
<listitem><para>This variable can be set to
<literal>gtar</literal>, <literal>nbtar</literal> (which is the
default value), <literal>pax</literal>, or an
absolute pathname pointing to the command with which tar
archives should be
extracted.</para></listitem></varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<para>If the <filename>extract</filename> program doesn't
serve your needs, you can also override the
<varname>EXTRACT_CMD</varname> variable, which holds the
command used for extracting the files. This command is
executed in the <filename>${WRKSRC}</filename>
directory. During execution of this command, the shell
variable <varname>extract_file</varname> holds the absolute
pathname of the file that is going to be extracted.</para>
<para>And if that still does not suffice, you can override the
<varname>do-extract</varname> target in the package
Makefile.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="build.patch">
<title>The <emphasis>patch</emphasis> phase</title>
<para>After extraction, all the patches named by the
<varname>PATCHFILES</varname>, those present in the patches
subdirectory of the package as well as in
$LOCALPATCHES/$PKGPATH (e.g.
<filename>/usr/local/patches/graphics/png</filename>) are
applied. Patchfiles ending in <filename>.Z</filename> or
<filename>.gz</filename> are uncompressed before they are
applied, files ending in <filename>.orig</filename> or
<filename>.rej</filename> are ignored. Any special options to
&man.patch.1; can be handed in
<varname>PATCH_DIST_ARGS</varname>. See <xref
linkend="components.patches"/> for more details.</para>
<para>By default &man.patch.1; is given special args to make
it fail if the patches apply with some lines of fuzz. Please
fix (regen) the patches so that they apply cleanly. The
rationale behind this is that patches that don't apply cleanly
may end up being applied in the wrong place, and cause severe
harm there.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="build.tools">
<title>The <emphasis>tools</emphasis> phase</title>
<para>This is covered in <xref linkend="tools"/>.
</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="build.wrapper">
<title>The <emphasis>wrapper</emphasis> phase</title>
<para>This phase creates wrapper programs for the compilers and
linkers. The following variables can be used to tweak the
wrappers.</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term><varname>ECHO_WRAPPER_MSG</varname></term>
<listitem><para>The command used to print progress
messages. Does nothing by default. Set to
<literal>${ECHO}</literal> to see the progress
messages.</para></listitem></varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><varname>WRAPPER_DEBUG</varname></term>
<listitem><para>This variable can be set to
<literal>yes</literal> (default) or <literal>no</literal>,
depending on whether you want additional information in the
wrapper log file.</para></listitem></varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><varname>WRAPPER_UPDATE_CACHE</varname></term>
<listitem><para>This variable can be set to
<literal>yes</literal> or <literal>no</literal>, depending
on whether the wrapper should use its cache, which will
improve the speed. The default value is
<literal>yes</literal>, but is forced to
<literal>no</literal> if the platform does not support
it.</para></listitem></varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><varname>WRAPPER_REORDER_CMDS</varname></term>
<listitem><para>A list of reordering commands. A reordering
command has the form
<literal>reorder:l:<replaceable>lib1</replaceable>:<replaceable>lib2</replaceable></literal>.
It ensures that that
<literal>-l<replaceable>lib1</replaceable></literal> occurs
before <literal>-l<replaceable>lib2</replaceable></literal>.
</para></listitem></varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><varname>WRAPPER_TRANSFORM_CMDS</varname></term>
<listitem><para>A list of transformation commands. [TODO:
investigate further]</para></listitem></varlistentry>
<!-- These should probably be internal variables
<varlistentry><term><varname>WRAPPEES</varname></term>
<listitem><para></para></listitem></varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><varname>UNWRAP_PATTERNS</varname></term>
<listitem><para></para></listitem></varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><varname>UNWRAP_FILES</varname></term>
<listitem><para></para></listitem></varlistentry>
-->
</variablelist>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="build.configure">
<title>The <emphasis>configure</emphasis> phase</title>
<para>Most pieces of software need information on the header
files, system calls, and library routines which are available
on the platform they run on. The process of determining this
information is known as configuration, and is usually
automated. In most cases, a script is supplied with the
distfiles, and its invocation results in generation of header
files, Makefiles, etc.</para>
<para>If the package contains a configure script, this can be
invoked by setting <varname>HAS_CONFIGURE</varname> to
<quote>yes</quote>. If the configure script is a GNU autoconf
script, you should set <varname>GNU_CONFIGURE</varname> to
<quote>yes</quote> instead. What happens in the
<emphasis>configure</emphasis> phase is roughly:</para>
<programlisting>
.for d in ${CONFIGURE_DIRS}
cd ${WRKSRC} && cd ${d} && env ${CONFIGURE_ENV} \
${CONFIGURE_SCRIPT} ${CONFIGURE_ARGS}
.endfor
</programlisting>
<para><varname>CONFIGURE_DIRS</varname> (default:
<quote>.</quote>) is a list of pathnames relative to
<varname>WRKSRC</varname>. In each of these directories, the
configure script is run with the environment
<varname>CONFIGURE_ENV</varname> and arguments
<varname>CONFIGURE_ARGS</varname>. The variables
<varname>CONFIGURE_ENV</varname>,
<varname>CONFIGURE_SCRIPT</varname> (default:
<quote>./configure</quote>) and
<varname>CONFIGURE_ARGS</varname> may all be changed by the
package.</para>
<para>If the program uses an <filename>Imakefile</filename>
for configuration, the appropriate steps can be invoked by
setting <varname>USE_IMAKE</varname> to
<quote>yes</quote>. (If you only want the package installed in
<varname>${X11PREFIX}</varname> but xmkmf not being run, set
<varname>USE_X11BASE</varname> instead.)</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="build.build">
<title>The <emphasis>build</emphasis> phase</title>
<para>For building a package, a rough equivalent of the
following code is executed.</para>
<programlisting>
.for d in ${BUILD_DIRS}
cd ${WRKSRC} && cd ${d} && env ${MAKE_ENV} \
${MAKE_PROGRAM} ${BUILD_MAKE_FLAGS} \
-f ${MAKE_FILE} ${BUILD_TARGET}
.endfor
</programlisting>
<para><varname>BUILD_DIRS</varname> (default:
<quote>.</quote>) is a list of pathnames relative to
<varname>WRKSRC</varname>. In each of these directories,
<varname>MAKE_PROGRAM</varname> is run with the environment
<varname>MAKE_ENV</varname> and arguments
<varname>BUILD_MAKE_FLAGS</varname>. The variables
<varname>MAKE_ENV</varname>,
<varname>BUILD_MAKE_FLAGS</varname>,
<varname>MAKE_FILE</varname> and
<varname>BUILD_TARGET</varname> may all be changed by the
package.</para>
<para>The default value of <varname>MAKE_PROGRAM</varname> is
<quote>gmake</quote> if <varname>USE_TOOLS</varname> contains
<quote>gmake</quote>, <quote>make</quote> otherwise. The
default value of <varname>MAKE_FILE</varname> is
<quote>Makefile</quote>, and <varname>BUILD_TARGET</varname>
defaults to <quote>all</quote>.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="build.test">
<title>The <emphasis>test</emphasis> phase</title>
<para>[TODO]</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="build.install">
<title>The <emphasis>install</emphasis> phase</title>
<para>Once the build stage has completed, the final step is to
install the software in public directories, so users can
access the programs and files.</para>
<para>In the <emphasis>install</emphasis> phase, a rough
equivalent of the following code is executed. Additionally,
before and after this code, much magic is performed to do
consistency checks, registering the package, and so on.</para>
<programlisting>
.for d in ${INSTALL_DIRS}
cd ${WRKSRC} && cd ${d} && env ${MAKE_ENV} \
${MAKE_PROGRAM} ${INSTALL_MAKE_FLAGS} \
-f ${MAKE_FILE} ${BUILD_TARGET}
.endfor
</programlisting>
<para>The variable's meanings are analogous to the ones in the
<emphasis>build</emphasis> phase.
<varname>INSTALL_DIRS</varname> defaults to
<varname>BUILD_DIRS</varname>. <varname>INSTALL_TARGET</varname>
is <quote>install</quote> by default, plus
<quote>install.man</quote> if <varname>USE_IMAKE</varname> is
defined and <varname>NO_INSTALL_MANPAGES</varname> is not
defined.</para>
<para>In the <emphasis>install</emphasis> phase, the following
variables are useful. They are all variations of the
&man.install.1; command that have the owner, group and
permissions preset. <varname>INSTALL</varname> is the plain
install command. The specialized variants, together with their
intended use, are:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term><varname>INSTALL_PROGRAM_DIR</varname></term>
<listitem><para>directories that contain
binaries</para></listitem></varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><varname>INSTALL_SCRIPT_DIR</varname></term>
<listitem><para>directories that contain
scripts</para></listitem></varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><varname>INSTALL_LIB_DIR</varname></term>
<listitem><para>directories that contain shared and static
libraries</para></listitem></varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><varname>INSTALL_DATA_DIR</varname></term>
<listitem><para>directories that contain data
files</para></listitem></varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><varname>INSTALL_MAN_DIR</varname></term>
<listitem><para>directories that contain man
pages</para></listitem></varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><varname>INSTALL_PROGRAM</varname></term>
<listitem><para>binaries that can be stripped from debugging
symbols</para></listitem></varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><varname>INSTALL_SCRIPT</varname></term>
<listitem><para>binaries that cannot be
stripped</para></listitem></varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><varname>INSTALL_GAME</varname></term>
<listitem><para>game
binaries</para></listitem></varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><varname>INSTALL_LIB</varname></term>
<listitem><para>shared and static
libraries</para></listitem></varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><varname>INSTALL_DATA</varname></term>
<listitem><para>data files</para></listitem></varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><varname>INSTALL_GAME_DATA</varname></term>
<listitem><para>data files for
games</para></listitem></varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><varname>INSTALL_MAN</varname></term>
<listitem><para>man pages</para></listitem></varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<para>Some other variables are:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term><varname>INSTALLATION_DIRS</varname></term>
<listitem><para>A list of directories relative to
<varname>PREFIX</varname> that are created by pkgsrc at the
beginning of the <emphasis>install</emphasis> phase. If
this variable is set,
<varname>NO_MTREE</varname>=<quote>yes</quote> is assumed,
which means that the package claims to create all needed
directories itself before installing files to it. Therefore
this variable should only be set in
<filename>Makefile</filename>s that are under control of the
package's author. The directories are created with the
correct ownership, depending on their
name.</para></listitem></varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="build.package">
<title>The <emphasis>package</emphasis> phase</title>
<para>Once the install stage has completed, a binary package of
the installed files can be built. These binary packages can be
used for quick installation without previous compilation, e.g. by
the <command>make bin-install</command> or by using
<command>pkg_add</command>.</para>
<para>By default, the binary packages are created in
<filename>${PACKAGES}/All</filename> and symlinks are created in
<filename>${PACKAGES}/<replaceable>category</replaceable></filename>,
one for each category in the <varname>CATEGORIES</varname>
variable. <varname>PACKAGES</varname> defaults to
<filename>pkgsrc/packages</filename>.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="build.clean">
<title>Cleaning up</title>
<para>Once you're finished with a package, you can clean the work
directory by running <command>make clean</command>. If you want
to clean the work directories of all dependencies too, use
<command>make clean-depends</command>.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="build.helpful-targets">
<title>Other helpful targets</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>pre/post-*</term>
<listitem>
<para>For any of the main targets described in the
previous section, two auxiliary targets exist with
<quote>pre-</quote> and <quote>post-</quote> used as a
prefix for the main target's name. These targets are
invoked before and after the main target is called,
allowing extra configuration or installation steps be
performed from a package's Makefile, for example, which
a program's configure script or install target
omitted.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>do-*</term>
<listitem>
<para>Should one of the main targets do the wrong thing,
and should there be no variable to fix this, you can
redefine it with the do-* target. (Note that redefining
the target itself instead of the do-* target is a bad
idea, as the pre-* and post-* targets won't be called
anymore, etc.) You will not usually need to do
this.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>reinstall</term>
<listitem>
<para>If you did a <command>make install</command> and
you noticed some file was not installed properly, you
can repeat the installation with this target, which will
ignore the <quote>already installed</quote> flag.</para>
<para>This is the default value of
<varname>DEPENDS_TARGET</varname> except in the case of
<command>make update</command> and <command>make
package</command>, where the defaults are
<quote>package</quote> and <quote>update</quote>,
respectively.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>deinstall</term>
<listitem>
<para>This target does a &man.pkg.delete.1; in the
current directory, effectively de-installing the
package. The following variables can be used to tune the
behaviour:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>PKG_VERBOSE</varname></term>
<listitem>
<para>Add a "-v" to the &man.pkg.delete.1; command.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>DEINSTALLDEPENDS</varname></term>
<listitem>
<para>Remove all packages that require (depend on)
the given package. This can be used to remove any
packages that may have been pulled in by a given
package, e.g. if <command>make deinstall
DEINSTALLDEPENDS=1</command> is done in
<filename>pkgsrc/x11/kde</filename>, this is
likely to remove whole KDE. Works by adding
<quote>-R</quote> to the &man.pkg.delete.1;
command line.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>bin-install</term>
<listitem>
<para>Install a binary package from local disk and via FTP
from a list of sites (see the
<varname>BINPKG_SITES</varname> variable), and do a
<command>make package</command> if no binary package is
available anywhere. The arguments given to
<command>pkg_add</command> can be set via
<varname>BIN_INSTALL_FLAGS</varname> e.g., to do verbose
operation, etc.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>update</term>
<listitem>
<para>This target causes the current package to be
updated to the latest version. The package and all
depending packages first get de-installed, then current
versions of the corresponding packages get compiled and
installed. This is similar to manually noting which
packages are currently installed, then performing a
series of <command>make deinstall</command> and
<command>make install</command> (or whatever
<varname>UPDATE_TARGET</varname> is set to) for these
packages.</para>
<para>You can use the <quote>update</quote> target to
resume package updating in case a previous <command>make
update</command> was interrupted for some reason.
However, in this case, make sure you don't call
<command>make clean</command> or otherwise remove the
list of dependent packages in <varname>WRKDIR</varname>.
Otherwise, you lose the ability to automatically update
the current package along with the dependent packages
you have installed.</para>
<para>Resuming an interrupted <command>make
update</command> will only work as long as the package
tree remains unchanged. If the source code for one of
the packages to be updated has been changed, resuming
<command>make update</command> will most certainly
fail!</para>
<para>The following variables can be used either on the
command line or in <filename>/etc/mk.conf</filename> to
alter the behaviour of <command>make
update</command>:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>UPDATE_TARGET</varname></term>
<listitem>
<para>Install target to recursively use for the
updated package and the dependent packages.
Defaults to <varname>DEPENDS_TARGET</varname> if
set, <quote>install</quote> otherwise for
<command>make update</command>. Other good
targets are <quote>package</quote> or
<quote>bin-install</quote>. Do not set this to
<quote>update</quote> or you will get stuck in an
endless loop!</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>NOCLEAN</varname></term>
<listitem>
<para>Don't clean up after updating. Useful if
you want to leave the work sources of the updated
packages around for inspection or other purposes.
Be sure you eventually clean up the source tree
(see the <quote>clean-update</quote> target below)
or you may run into troubles with old source code
still lying around on your next
<command>make</command> or <command>make
update</command>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>REINSTALL</varname></term>
<listitem>
<para>Deinstall each package before installing
(making <varname>DEPENDS_TARGET</varname>). This
may be necessary if the
<quote>clean-update</quote> target (see below) was
called after interrupting a running <command>make
update</command>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>DEPENDS_TARGET</varname></term>
<listitem>
<para>Allows you to disable recursion and hardcode
the target for packages. The default is
<quote>update</quote> for the update target,
facilitating a recursive update of prerequisite
packages. Only set
<varname>DEPENDS_TARGET</varname> if you want to
disable recursive updates. Use
<varname>UPDATE_TARGET</varname> instead to just
set a specific target for each package to be
installed during <command>make update</command>
(see above).</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>clean-update</term>
<listitem>
<para>Clean the source tree for all packages that would
get updated if <command>make update</command> was called
from the current directory. This target should not be
used if the current package (or any of its depending
packages) have already been de-installed (e.g., after
calling <command>make update</command>) or you may lose
some packages you intended to update. As a rule of
thumb: only use this target <emphasis>before</emphasis>
the first time you run <command>make update</command>
and only if you have a dirty package tree (e.g., if you
used <varname>NOCLEAN</varname>).</para>
<para>If you are unsure about whether your tree is
clean, you can either perform a <command>make
clean</command> at the top of the tree, or use the
following sequence of commands from the directory of the
package you want to update (<emphasis>before</emphasis>
running <command>make update</command> for the first
time, otherwise you lose all the packages you wanted to
update!):</para>
<screen>
&rprompt; <userinput>make clean-update</userinput>
&rprompt; <userinput>make clean CLEANDEPENDS=YES</userinput>
&rprompt; <userinput>make update</userinput>
</screen>
<para>The following variables can be used either on the
command line or in <filename>/etc/mk.conf</filename> to
alter the behaviour of <command>make
clean-update</command>:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>CLEAR_DIRLIST</varname></term>
<listitem>
<para>After <command>make clean</command>, do not
reconstruct the list of directories to update for
this package. Only use this if <command>make
update</command> successfully installed all
packages you wanted to update. Normally, this is
done automatically on <command>make
update</command>, but may have been suppressed by
the <varname>NOCLEAN</varname> variable (see
above).</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>replace</term>
<listitem>
<para>Update the installation of the current package. This
differs from update in that it does not replace dependent
packages. You will need to install <filename
role="pkg">pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_tarup</filename> for this
target to work.</para>
<para><emphasis>Be careful when using this
target!</emphasis> There are no guarantees that dependent
packages will still work, in particular they will most
certainly break if you <command>make replace</command> a
library package whose shared library major version changed
between your installed version and the new one. For this
reason, this target is not officially supported and only
recommended for advanced users.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>info</term>
<listitem>
<para>This target invokes &man.pkg.info.1; for the current
package. You can use this to check which version of a
package is installed.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>index</term>
<listitem>
<para>This is a top-level command, i.e. it should be used in
the <filename>pkgsrc</filename> directory. It creates a
database of all packages in the local pkgsrc tree, including
dependencies, comment, maintainer, and some other useful
information. Individual entries are created by running
<command>make describe</command> in the packages'
directories. This index file is saved as
<filename>pkgsrc/INDEX</filename>. It can be displayed in
verbose format by running <command>make
print-index</command>. You can search in it with
<command>make search
key=<replaceable>something</replaceable></command>. You can
extract a list of all packages that depend on a particular
one by running <command>make show-deps
PKG=<replaceable>somepackage</replaceable></command>.</para>
<para>Running this command takes a very long time, some
hours even on fast machines!</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>readme</term>
<listitem>
<para>This target generates a
<filename>README.html</filename> file, which can be
viewed using a browser such as <filename
role="pkg">www/firefox</filename> or <filename
role="pkg">www/links</filename>. The generated files
contain references to any packages which are in the
<varname>PACKAGES</varname> directory on the local
host. The generated files can be made to refer to URLs
based on <varname>FTP_PKG_URL_HOST</varname> and
<varname>FTP_PKG_URL_DIR</varname>. For example, if I
wanted to generate <filename>README.html</filename>
files which pointed to binary packages on the local
machine, in the directory
<filename>/usr/packages</filename>, set
<varname>FTP_PKG_URL_HOST=file://localhost</varname> and
<varname>FTP_PKG_URL_DIR=/usr/packages</varname>. The
<varname>${PACKAGES}</varname> directory and its
subdirectories will be searched for all the binary
packages.</para>
<para>The target can be run at the toplevel or in category
directories, in which case it descends recursively.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>readme-all</term>
<listitem>
<para>This is a top-level command, run it in
<filename>pkgsrc</filename>. Use this target to create a
file <filename>README-all.html</filename> which contains a
list of all packages currently available in the &os;
Packages Collection, together with the category they belong
to and a short description. This file is compiled from the
<filename>pkgsrc/*/README.html</filename> files, so be sure
to run this <emphasis>after</emphasis> a <command>make
readme</command>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>cdrom-readme</term>
<listitem>
<para>This is very much the same as the
<quote>readme</quote> target (see above), but is to be
used when generating a pkgsrc tree to be written to a
CD-ROM. This target also produces
<filename>README.html</filename> files, and can be made
to refer to URLs based on
<varname>CDROM_PKG_URL_HOST</varname> and
<varname>CDROM_PKG_URL_DIR</varname>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>show-distfiles</term>
<listitem>
<para>This target shows which distfiles and patchfiles
are needed to build the package
(<varname>ALLFILES</varname>, which contains all
<varname>DISTFILES</varname> and
<varname>PATCHFILES</varname>, but not
<filename>patches/*</filename>).</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>show-downlevel</term>
<listitem>
<para>This target shows nothing if the package is not
installed. If a version of this package is installed,
but is not the version provided in this version of
pkgsrc, then a warning message is displayed. This target
can be used to show which of your installed packages are
downlevel, and so the old versions can be deleted, and
the current ones added.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>show-pkgsrc-dir</term>
<listitem>
<para>This target shows the directory in the pkgsrc
hierarchy from which the package can be built and
installed. This may not be the same directory as the one
from which the package was installed. This target is
intended to be used by people who may wish to upgrade
many packages on a single host, and can be invoked from
the top-level pkgsrc Makefile by using the
<quote>show-host-specific-pkgs</quote> target.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>show-installed-depends</term>
<listitem>
<para>This target shows which installed packages match
the current package's <varname>DEPENDS</varname>. Useful
if out of date dependencies are causing build
problems.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>check-shlibs</term>
<listitem>
<para>After a package is installed, check all its
binaries and (on ELF platforms) shared libraries to see
if they find the shared libs they need. Run by default
if <varname>PKG_DEVELOPER</varname> is set in
<filename>/etc/mk.conf</filename>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>print-PLIST</term>
<listitem>
<para>After a <quote>make install</quote> from a new or
upgraded pkg, this prints out an attempt to generate a
new <filename>PLIST</filename> from a <command>find
-newer work/.extract_done</command>. An attempt is made
to care for shared libs etc., but it is
<emphasis>strongly</emphasis> recommended to review the
result before putting it into
<filename>PLIST</filename>. On upgrades, it's useful to
diff the output of this command against an already
existing <filename>PLIST</filename> file.</para>
<para>If the package installs files via &man.tar.1; or
other methods that don't update file access times, be
sure to add these files manually to your
<filename>PLIST</filename>, as the <quote>find
-newer</quote> command used by this target won't catch
them!</para>
<para>See <xref linkend="print-PLIST"/> for more
information on this target.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>bulk-package</term>
<listitem>
<para>Used to do bulk builds. If an appropriate binary
package already exists, no action is taken. If not, this
target will compile, install and package it (and its
depends, if <varname>PKG_DEPENDS</varname> is set
properly. See <xref linkend="binary.configuration"/>).
After creating the binary package, the sources, the
just-installed package and its required packages are
removed, preserving free disk space.</para>
<para><emphasis>Beware that this target may deinstall
all packages installed on a system!</emphasis></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>bulk-install</term>
<listitem>
<para>Used during bulk-installs to install required
packages. If an up-to-date binary package is available,
it will be installed via &man.pkg.add.1;. If not,
<command>make bulk-package</command> will be executed,
but the installed binary won't be removed.</para>
<para>A binary package is considered
<quote>up-to-date</quote> to be installed via
&man.pkg.add.1; if:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>None of the package's files
(<filename>Makefile</filename>, ...) were modified
since it was built.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>None of the package's required (binary)
packages were modified since it was built.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para><emphasis>Beware that this target may deinstall
all packages installed on a system!</emphasis></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect1>
</chapter>
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