From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Sep 25 17: 2:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D05AB14A11; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 17:02:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: from kilt.nothing-going-on.org (kilt.nothing-going-on.org [192.168.1.18]) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA46760; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 00:57:01 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik@catkin.nothing-going-on.org) Received: (from nik@localhost) by kilt.nothing-going-on.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA40482; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 00:25:08 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik@catkin.nothing-going-on.org) Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 00:25:07 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Jun Kuriyama Cc: Nik Clayton , Documentation Team Subject: Re: ${PREFIX} in doc/share/mk/doc.*.mk Message-ID: <19990926002507.C25199@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> References: <14291.57722.864221.81928B@localhost.sky.rim.or.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <14291.57722.864221.81928B@localhost.sky.rim.or.jp>; from Jun Kuriyama on Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 12:44:58AM +0900 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 12:44:58AM +0900, Jun Kuriyama wrote: > > Usually, ${PREFIX} is used target directory for *each* port in Ports > Collection. If you want to point "jade" location, you should use > ${LOCALBASE} in Ports. > > If Documentation Project doesn't depend on X program, I'd like to > suggest patches below. Won't work. LOCALBASE isn't defined in /usr/share/mk/* or /etc/make.conf, and I'm loathe to make building the doc/ tree depend on the ports/ tree. If LOCALBASE is standard, it should move into one of the above files (/etc/make.conf I would've thought) first. Does that make sense? N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message