From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Jul 14 14: 3:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from majordomo2.umd.edu (majordomo2.umd.edu [128.8.10.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 729F037BA02; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 14:03:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from howardjp@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac7.wam.umd.edu (root@rac7.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.147]) by majordomo2.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA23862; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 17:03:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac7.wam.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac7.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA04269; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 17:03:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac7.wam.umd.edu (howardjp@localhost) by rac7.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA04264; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 17:03:33 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200007142103.RAA04264@rac7.wam.umd.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: rac7.wam.umd.edu: howardjp owned process doing -bs To: Trevor Johnson Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Rolling Your Own Port" In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 14 Jul 2000 08:16:42 EDT." Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 17:03:23 -0400 From: James Howard Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message , Trevor John son writes: > > http://www.wam.umd.edu/~howardjp/rollyourownport/ > > In the section about patching the Makefile, you hard-code a path to > /usr/local/. That's considered bad practice, according to > http://www.freebsd.org/porters-handbook/porting-prefix.html . Just after I have followed through on all your corrections except this one. What would be the best way to handle this in a diff? I have posted a revised version at the above address. All the various formats are supported. Thanks, Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message