Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 14:23:13 -0500 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> To: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/sysutils/fcron Makefile Message-ID: <20010825142313.I53260@leviathan.inethouston.net> In-Reply-To: <20010825142326.L35352@bohr.physics.purdue.edu> References: <200108242259.f7OMxmD37685@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010824193607.A59099@peitho.fxp.org> <20010825170156.B33864@mithrandr.moria.org> <20010825142326.L35352@bohr.physics.purdue.edu>
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On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 02:23:26PM -0500, Will Andrews wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 05:01:56PM +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner (nbm@mithrandr.moria.org) wrote:
> > > Won't this cause problems for those building ports as non-root?
> > > Couldn't we simply patch configure[.in] to take our word for where
> > > the proper etc dir is instead of bailing if it isn't found?
> >
> > Yes, that is _much_ better. In theory, we should be able to build with
> > ${PREFIX} read-only.
>
> And in practice that's the best way to do it. Some authors are
> stupid and require uid's or similar during configure or
> build time... there is never a valid reason to write ${PREFIX} or
> anything outside ${WRKSRC} during build time or before that.
>
I tried to patch configure.in, but apparently it still doesn't fix
it, so if anyone wants to help me out, I'd appreciate it.
--
David W. Chapman Jr.
dwcjr@inethouston.net Raintree Network Services, Inc. <www.inethouston.net>
dwcjr@freebsd.org FreeBSD Committer <www.FreeBSD.org>
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