From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 4 22:23:07 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFA74106564A for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 22:23:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@eitanadler.com) Received: from mail-lpp01m010-f54.google.com (mail-lpp01m010-f54.google.com [209.85.215.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6594F8FC0C for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 22:23:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lahl5 with SMTP id l5so9391118lah.13 for ; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:23:06 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=eitanadler.com; s=0xdeadbeef; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=+prxgWzIbixInQVBfZqNynmhBe1gXQ2e2JtXo2rIbAQ=; b=gOBEwr3P1zI4NSjQnPFTFlasrtUu4Bk5SkuappErUP60F9e3zVOdpWOO8BHFCRUeZa jxoGB6rTHZnac+431oM7g5vmmrBV+U+ANAN8ddN3qXfwHZYun56q9w/wIBwCjHJbJAhC cYYAquflaeWG2gIxY0C96J+Ajkl8s2vbLaBXs= Received: by 10.112.102.164 with SMTP id fp4mr301837lbb.65.1325715786151; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:23:06 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.152.129.8 with HTTP; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 14:22:35 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: From: Eitan Adler Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 17:22:35 -0500 Message-ID: To: Warren Block Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Porter's Handbook: PREFIX and DESTDIR X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:23:08 -0000 On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Warren Block wrote: > The section on PREFIX and DESTDIR in the Porter's Handbook is unclear and > confusing. =C2=A0Following up from a thread in -doc, here are the propose= d > changes so far. Thanks for working on this. > Beyond some rewriting and clarification, I removed the mention of LOCALBA= SE > sometimes being /opt, which is covered by saying it can be a custom path. It may be useful to give an explicit example of what paths users choose. > Is there any reason to keep the references to /usr/X11R6? No, all references to X11BASE will be removed shortly anyways. > is not clear, and was rewritten to > > =C2=A0PREFIX should not be set explicitly in a port's Makefile. =C2=A0Use= rs > =C2=A0installing the port may have set PREFIX to a custom location, and t= he > =C2=A0port should respect that setting. > > Does that capture the intended meaning of the original? =C2=A0Has it left > anything out? This is much better. --=20 Eitan Adler