From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jun 1 5:35:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from eastwood.aldigital.algroup.co.uk (eastwood.aldigital.algroup.co.uk [194.128.162.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E29715673; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 05:35:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adam@algroup.co.uk) Received: from algroup.co.uk ([192.168.192.1]) by eastwood.aldigital.algroup.co.uk (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id MAA09021; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 12:34:01 GMT Message-ID: <3753D335.A63EA688@algroup.co.uk> Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 13:33:57 +0100 From: Adam Laurie X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "James E. Housley" Cc: hetzels@westbent.net, rse@engelschall.com, dirk@freebsd.org, ache@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org, Adam Laurie Subject: Re: apache 1.3.x-{what ever} References: <37517D80.26D30168@frenchknot.ne.mediaone.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org James E. Housley wrote: > > I was trying to upgrade/switch from apache13-modssl to apache13-fp to > experiment with fp. I was done playing with ssl for the moment. The > problem/annoyance I came across is that they don't use the same data > directory by default. And it was very difficult to force fp to use the > ${PREFIX}/share/apache directory that -modssl was using. > > apache13-fp/Makefile: --datadir=${PREFIX}/www \ > apache13-modssl/Makefile: --datadir=${PREFIX}/share/apache > \ > apache13-php3/Makefile: --datadir=${PREFIX}/share/apache \ > apache13-ssl/Makefile: --datadir=${PREFIX}/www \ > apache13/Makefile: --datadir=${PREFIX}/www \ > > There seems to be two distict camps. It might be benificial to decide > on one of the two locations. Just my opinion. My own preference would be for the ports to do the same thing as the underlying package would have done, given no arguments to "make install". However, for hysterical reasons, I'm maintaining the layout that I inherited when I took over the port... But I agree - it would be nice if these were unified. cheers, Adam -- Adam Laurie Tel: +44 (181) 742 0755 A.L. Digital Ltd. Fax: +44 (181) 742 5995 Voysey House Barley Mow Passage http://www.aldigital.co.uk London W4 4GB mailto:adam@algroup.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM PGP key on keyservers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message