From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Aug 25 12:23:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from leviathan.inethouston.net (leviathan.inethouston.net [66.64.12.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 430FF37B401 for ; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 12:23:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwcjr@inethouston.net) Received: by leviathan.inethouston.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 5459110F431; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 14:23:13 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 14:23:13 -0500 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." To: Will Andrews Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/sysutils/fcron Makefile Message-ID: <20010825142313.I53260@leviathan.inethouston.net> Reply-To: "David W. Chapman Jr." Mail-Followup-To: Will Andrews , ports@freebsd.org References: <200108242259.f7OMxmD37685@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010824193607.A59099@peitho.fxp.org> <20010825170156.B33864@mithrandr.moria.org> <20010825142326.L35352@bohr.physics.purdue.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010825142326.L35352@bohr.physics.purdue.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.21i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 02:23:26PM -0500, Will Andrews wrote: > On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 05:01:56PM +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner (nbm@mithrandr.moria.org) wrote: > > > Won't this cause problems for those building ports as non-root? > > > Couldn't we simply patch configure[.in] to take our word for where > > > the proper etc dir is instead of bailing if it isn't found? > > > > Yes, that is _much_ better. In theory, we should be able to build with > > ${PREFIX} read-only. > > And in practice that's the best way to do it. Some authors are > stupid and require uid's or similar during configure or > build time... there is never a valid reason to write ${PREFIX} or > anything outside ${WRKSRC} during build time or before that. > I tried to patch configure.in, but apparently it still doesn't fix it, so if anyone wants to help me out, I'd appreciate it. -- David W. Chapman Jr. dwcjr@inethouston.net Raintree Network Services, Inc. dwcjr@freebsd.org FreeBSD Committer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message