From owner-cvs-all Sat Aug 25 12:21:35 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from franklin.physics.purdue.edu (franklin.physics.purdue.edu [128.210.146.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E5B637B401; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 12:21:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from will@physics.purdue.edu) Received: from physics.purdue.edu (bohr.physics.purdue.edu [128.210.67.12]) by franklin.physics.purdue.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8253E20F14; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 14:23:18 -0500 (EST) Received: by physics.purdue.edu (Postfix, from userid 12409) id BC13E5BC3; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 14:23:26 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 14:23:26 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: Neil Blakey-Milner Cc: Chris Faulhaber , "David W. Chapman Jr." , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/sysutils/fcron Makefile Message-ID: <20010825142326.L35352@bohr.physics.purdue.edu> Reply-To: Will Andrews Mail-Followup-To: Neil Blakey-Milner , Chris Faulhaber , "David W. Chapman Jr." , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org References: <200108242259.f7OMxmD37685@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010824193607.A59099@peitho.fxp.org> <20010825170156.B33864@mithrandr.moria.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.17i In-Reply-To: <20010825170156.B33864@mithrandr.moria.org>; from nbm@mithrandr.moria.org on Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 05:01:56PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-cvs-all@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 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. -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message