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Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 13:56:32 -0700
From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Paul English <penglish@hydro.washington.edu>
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	Paul English <penglish@meter.hydro.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: --prefix for installing a port?
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On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 12:31:47PM -0700, Paul English wrote:
>=20
> Hi,
> 	How can I tell a port to install itself in an alternate location
> (like the configure --prefix option)?

The PREFIX env variable

> It seems that some ports install in
> /usr when I want to make sure they all end up in /usr/local

These are bugs, and should be reported.  In particular, if you're
building the port correctly and it still does this, then PREFIX won't
help (they should already be going in /usr/local).

Kris

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