From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 21 19:54:39 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF4F91065672 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:54:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from r.c.ladan@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ey0-f182.google.com (mail-ey0-f182.google.com [209.85.215.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 499498FC08 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:54:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eyg7 with SMTP id 7so1754126eyg.13 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:54:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:sender:message-id:date:from:organization :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=bX6lYAc2rIjY+tG1qIUdklbt/tsAlif0EkWT9w3ZgBI=; b=cBsFo2AdobBViEauGwXnczAY5IRBks116WkCS7hNHw0f+JuA9nYBNi31x+2AIrfBN4 VcmC5TyTbHm3EQQ6j9e6wbblUtnen8YWrHOkeW9uvUUqhvgIh2xvdgyi4EJM5y1WwwyZ F9parJ42sSIyzZ9JEYMinf0sLiz2MGCI+SMcQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:organization:user-agent:mime-version:to :cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=i+pQrGmMRlWpcKMmKExsDFqj0ntdboQvTYvZn4JnnBjjzOEnDvDrtyiDeJPJFoJLZc t+DrOP+gXgVO4iyDOZ0ONFHYTFQo4pvz8gr43hzP+3mOUJGyljVQQ/TgRkH/ZqN4gEvL d58D6W7/5onxx9p3DGsjtdECedpnPfFUmUBo8= Received: by 10.213.2.83 with SMTP id 19mr1204568ebi.43.1300737277847; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:54:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.13] (ip18-43-209-87.adsl2.static.versatel.nl [87.209.43.18]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q53sm2231828eeh.25.2011.03.21.12.54.35 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:54:36 -0700 (PDT) Sender: =?UTF-8?Q?Ren=C3=A9_Ladan?= Message-ID: <4D87ACFA.8000601@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:54:34 +0100 From: Rene Ladan Organization: The FreeBSD Project User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; nl-NL; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110305 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: arrowdodger <6yearold@gmail.com> References: <1884900621.34333.1300735049351.JavaMail.glassfish@pd7mw10no.prod.shaw.ca> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Dale Scott , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [mdb-dev] databases/mbdtools + unixODBC X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:54:39 -0000 Op 21-03-2011 20:38, arrowdodger schreef: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:17 PM, Dale Scott wrote: > >> 1. INSTALL says acinclude.m4 must be deleted when using libtool 1.3.4+. I >> have libtool 2.2.6b, did not delete acinclude.m4, and did not get an error. >> Is this correct? >> It could just not be used depending on how autoconf is involved. But libtool 2.2.6b is not supported anymore by the Ports Collection, see the 20101208 entry in /usr/ports/UPDATING for how to upgrade to libtool 2.4 (and get current versions of the other autotools). [...] >> 3. do I need to (or should I) copy the utility programs and odbc driver >> manager to their typical (as I understand them to be) locaitions in the >> FreeBSD tree? (e.g., /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/lib). >> > If you really wish, you can do `gmake install` with root privileges. But > please note, that since you are installing this software from source and not > from ports, it may be hard to remove it in future. You can only rely on > `gmake deinstall` or something like that. It depends. If it is just for your personal use, then e.g. your home directory is also fine. If you want to make a port of it, then it should be installed in PREFIX (which is /usr/local by default). Regards, René -- http://www.rene-ladan.nl:8080/ GPG fingerprint = ADBC ECCD EB5F A6B4 549F 600D 8C9E 647A E564 2BFC (subkeys.pgp.net)