Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:23:48 -0600 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: "Michael D. Norwick" <mnorwick@centurytel.net> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: When do binaries get removed? Message-ID: <6201873e1003282123x5bda8941p5188e65b2a87f19e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4BAFFC4B.5010501@centurytel.net> References: <4BAFFC4B.5010501@centurytel.net>
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On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Michael D. Norwick <mnorwick@centurytel.net > wrote: > Good evening; > > When building and installing an application from ports, how does the > original binary or script, in /usr/bin, /usr/lib, /usr/etc..., from the > distribution, get removed? It doesn't. > The make install foo command does not appear to symlink the original > application location to the new one in /usr/local/whatever. Does it even > matter? > What is your end goal? man hier(7) if you want to know where things live. This contains a simple method to to build a FreeBSD gui install. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-February/212899.html FreeBSD documentation isn't like Debian, if you follow the handbook exactly and completely, it nearly always works. -- Adam Vande More
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