Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 16:24:09 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Mike Jackson <muck@ida.net>, "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8.0 For Linux works :-) Message-ID: <199812200024.QAA01579@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 19 Dec 1998 17:19:00 MST." <4.1.19981219171741.06dad040@mail.lariat.org>
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> At 03:25 PM 12/19/98 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > >I'm looking at their port's Makefile at the moment; it's a bit fragile > >in that it assumes that the user reads their instructions and installs > >it into /usr/local/corel. > > Gee, that's a bit egotistical -- putting themselves right under > /usr/local instead of in, say, /usr/local/etc/corel (which would > follow the convention used by apache and others). Not sure if I mislead you here; they recommend installation of the entire packge in /usr/local/corel; we do this with the Acrobat Reader but not Netscape, which lives in /usr/local/lib (where I plan to put WordPerfect). At any rate, I'm working on this now. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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