From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 12 07:52:47 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDE9616A403 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:52:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (mail.shire.net [166.70.252.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F0A543D67 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:52:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [67.171.127.191] (helo=[192.168.99.68]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.51) id 1GXvN0-0005FZ-Tv for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 01:52:47 -0600 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) In-Reply-To: References: <452B9EF9.4090800@mikestammer.com> <20061010133359.73832.qmail@web27511.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=sha1; boundary=Apple-Mail-8--203743869; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature" Message-Id: <59D83911-C3C0-4FC6-9AF5-69195843757C@shire.net> From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 01:52:45 -0600 To: questions list X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.171.127.191 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on hobbiton.shire.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: ports vs configure/make/make install Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: cheapskate webmail interface X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:52:48 -0000 --Apple-Mail-8--203743869 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed On Oct 12, 2006, at 1:26 AM, Juha Saarinen wrote: > On 10/11/06, Desmond Coughlan wrote: >> Yeah. I used to do Solaris admin (Jesus, you'd never know >> it...), and usually prefer installing software the ./configure --> >> make && make install route. Especially since a ports install >> doesn't tell you anything about where the software is put.... > > It most certainly does, and also allows you to change the locations of > the software to be installed. Have a look at the Makefile in the > ports. While theoretically you can change the location where stuff is put using ports, it does not always work out that well (I admit I could have screwed up). Mainly, some ports rely on other ports. I installed a bunch of stuff (gnu build stuff) that some ports relied on in my own dir /usr/public as a prefix. The ports system should know about this (ie at later install time) but certain ports that rely on this stuff seem to have it hardwired that this stuff is in / usr/local and these ports fail. So may ports can easily be changed, some ports can't. I use ports for things like build tools, system tools, editors, compilers. and certain standard SW we use. I use configure/make etc for my MTA, apache, php, my imap and pop servers, and lots of my service level software that I find much easier to customize myself without jumping through ports. best Chad > > > -- > > Juha > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net --Apple-Mail-8--203743869--