Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 15:49:57 -0400 From: "JK" <jdkullmann@aliencamel.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Compiling Ports... Message-ID: <web-20422723@aliencamel.com> In-Reply-To: <fb6605670601051141j70f31733g67f2e82e8354d4a4@mail.gmail.com> References: <43BD70ED.1000506@ntlworld.com> <fb6605670601051141j70f31733g67f2e82e8354d4a4@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 14:41:50 -0500 "Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca> wrote: > On 1/5/06, Crispy Beef <crispy.beef@ntlworld.com> wrote: >> Am trying to get my head around the ports system, specifically >>custom options >> when compiling. For example I would like to install apache 2.2 >>under it's own >> dir in /usr/local, say /usr/local/apache22. If I was rolling my own >>version >> using the configure script I would do: >> >> ./configure prefix="/usr/local/apache22" > > I believe the default prefix can be changed, but I'm unclear as to >why > you would want to change it. The port installs a package that you >can > then remove easily with the pkg tools. Why would you want to do >this? But wait! I thought the pkg system maintained track of where things were installed even if directed somewhere else and a pkg_delete etc would still work. No?
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