From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Mar 19 12:32:29 1995 Return-Path: ports-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA22644 for ports-outgoing; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 12:32:29 -0800 Received: from grunt.grondar.za (grunt.grondar.za [196.7.18.129]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA22635 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 12:32:21 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grunt.grondar.za (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA23136; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 22:31:45 +0200 Message-Id: <199503192031.WAA23136@grunt.grondar.za> X-Authentication-Warning: grunt.grondar.za: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: "Rodney W. Grimes" cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Gripe of the week (tm) :-) Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 22:31:44 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: ports-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I am confused about how this works. (The PREFIX thingy.) I've grepped > > around /usr/X11R6/Lib/X11 and some of the X-ports makefiles, and I am > > badly confused now. (Too much work also!!). > > > > There is no mention of PREFIX in any of the {M}{Im}akefiles of the > > following ports: xv, xearth, ghostview, xdvi. There is also no mention > > of PREFIX in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/*. Has this ever worked, is is it > > something else I can bang on? > > Look at /usr/share/mk/bsd.prot.mk. First place I looked. Point is although these PREFIX's are created, no {Im}{M}akefile uses them. find /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 -name \* -exec grep -l PREFIX {} \; comes up blank, so does grepping the port itself. Has anybody actually got a working one? M -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200