From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 30 09:37:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA07342 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 09:37:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA07251 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 09:37:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA24526; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 09:36:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 09:36:51 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Palle Girgensohn cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nfs mounting /usr/local/bin as /opt/bin? In-Reply-To: <351AB564.10ABA958@partitur.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Palle Girgensohn wrote: > Are there any ports that will break if they are used from another > directory (i.e. /opt/bin) than what they were originally installed into > (i.e. /usr/local/bin)? I'm not considering daemons and stuff, but user > programs. Not that I know of, as long as /opt/bin is in your path you will probably be okay. Hint hint: > /opt/bin otherserver:/usr/local/bin > /opt/lib otherserver:/usr/local/lib Run `ldconfig -m /opt/lib' to pick up those libraries. > /opt/man oterhserver:/usr/local/man Edit /etc/manpath.config and add this directory as optional. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message