Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 19:23:28 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: Wes Santee <wes@bogon.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Are these bugs? Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.961114192059.11012B-100000@skipper.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199611142115.NAA18876@kryten.bogon.net>
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On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Wes Santee wrote:
> 'Lo port-people.
>
> I'm trying to figure out what is the critera for what is considered a
> bug-free port. More specifically of the last, oh, 5 or so ports I've
> built, only 1 or 2 of them have actually respected the PREFIX variable
> to install somewhere else beside /usr/local.
>
> I realize some of the ports can't avoid it (i.e. Netscape which
> hard-codes /usr/local into the binary), but even emacs, which can be
> passed the --with-prefix=${PREFIX} flag to configure doesn't use it.
>
> If this is the way things should be, then I guess I'll go back to
> makefile hacking, etc.. However, if the ports should be created to
> respect PREFIX at least most of the time, perhaps before committing a
> port to the world, it should be made and installed with PREFIX
> pointing somewhere beside /usr/local, just to make sure the port is
> robust.
All ports are supposed to respect ${PREFIX}, altho some don't. Usually
the ones that don't are either the oldest, or some very complicated ones.
I wouldn't want to be the one who has to make XFree86 respect ${PREFIX}.
However, a very strong attempt to meet this is expected of every port.
We'd be happy to have PRs filed on every one you notice that doesn't.
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