Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:35:09 -0600 From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: setting X11BASE Message-ID: <05E49C593C4BF6198C574305@Macintosh.local> In-Reply-To: <47c05ebe.Mgeup%2BojPdtp/pFj%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <47be74b1.pGW9HajDXl3VC5wx%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <200802221307.43940.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> <47bfd2d6.EvwzDqmqdVQnRjs8%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <47BFD6D1.3020506@bsdforen.de> <47c05ebe.Mgeup%2BojPdtp/pFj%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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--On February 23, 2008 9:58:22 AM -0800 perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote:
>> >
>> > I'm finding it especially "interesting" that /etc/make.conf,
>> > which to judge from its location is part of the base, depends
>> > on a setting from something in the /usr/ports tree.
>>
>> Well, actually it doesn't. What gives you this impression?
>
> Paul Schmehl reported where LOCALBASE is set: in
> /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk
>
> Now I'm being told to add this:
>
> X11BASE=${LOCALBASE}
>
> to /etc/make.conf, so that /etc/make.conf needs LOCALBASE to be set
> in order to set X11BASE correctly. Is that not a dependency?
You're looking at it in the reverse of what it really is.
LOCALBASE is set in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk so that *ports* know where
to install stuff. And X11BASE needs to be set to ${LOCALBASE} in
/etc/make.conf because *ports* need to know that X11BASE has changed from
the previous default of /usr/X11R6.
A dependency is a program that a *port* requires to function properly, not
a *location* where ports install their files.
Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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