Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 01:41:30 -0700 From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: paul@FreeBSD.org Cc: paul@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Dependencies Message-ID: <199508310841.BAA10845@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <199508301021.LAA22021@server.netcraft.co.uk> (message from Paul Richards on Wed, 30 Aug 1995 11:21:51 %2B0100 (BST))
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* Not really, the paths will can be relative to the tree root.
This still won't help, the X ports (technically) don't know where the
"local" tree is. The opposite is true too.
* and the mk file will know what these are relative to. We could also check
* /usr/local/* as a fallback in case binaries have been hand installed,
* if they're installed anywhere besides /usr/local or the ports root then
* it's too non-standard and we can just abort.
Given the above, I don think this accomplishes much more than my older
suggestion ("check /usr/local/bin and /usr/X11R6/bin regardless of the
$PATH"). Ok, maybe we check ${PREFIX}/bin too. :)
* We can improve things a lot from where we currently are but it does
* complicate things that much more. In this case I think it's worth it
* though. Having PPP start up and download something I already have is
* really bad.
The last sentence I can agree, but requiring all the exec_depends'
pathnames is a little too much. The three "default" cases (see above)
should cover most of what we need.
Satoshi
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