Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 18:21:02 -0700 From: Chris Faehl <cfaehl@cs.unm.edu> To: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Division between /usr/local and everything else Message-ID: <E0xuosK-00024h-00@enterprise.cs.unm.edu>
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Hi, I hope this isn't a FAQ that I'm missing somewhere - but it would be very useful if *all* ports could be built into the /usr/local hierarchy. Some packages (like exim) build into their own directory (/usr/exim). I would like to see some way of building EITHER in the default location OR into the /usr/local hierarchy. The way it is now makes it very difficult to build a 'shared' /usr/local tree that many machines can use (don't get me wrong - a lot of the stuff goes in /usr/local, but enough doesn't that it makes for a bit of difficulty. I'm envisioning a few mechanisms for this - one could be an environment variable (TOPDIR, maybe?) settable by the user, another could be a switch thrown to make, another could be a separate target for the install, something like 'install-local'). Thoughts? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Faehl | Email: cfaehl@cs.unm.edu The University of New Mexico | URL: http://www.cs.unm.edu/~cfaehl Computer Science Dept., Rm. FEC 313 | Phone: 505/277-3526 Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA | FAX: 505/277-6927 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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