From owner-freebsd-hackers  Tue Mar  3 06:02:45 1998
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Received: (from majordom@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA12122
          for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 06:02:45 -0800 (PST)
          (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG)
Received: from techunix.technion.ac.il (mellon@techunix.technion.ac.il [132.68.1.28])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA11833
          for <hackers@freebsd.org>; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 06:02:00 -0800 (PST)
          (envelope-from mellon@techunix.technion.ac.il)
Received: (from mellon@localhost)
	by techunix.technion.ac.il (8.8.7/8.8.5) id QAA21909;
	Tue, 3 Mar 1998 16:01:44 +0200 (IST)
Message-ID: <19980303160142.15863@techunix.technion.ac.il>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 16:01:42 +0200
From: Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com>
To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: ports for X11 stuff
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88
In-Reply-To: <199803031041.CAA12165@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>; from Satoshi Asami on Tue, Mar 03, 1998 at 02:41:47AM -0800
Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

Satoshi,

You, Satoshi Asami, were spotted writing this on Tue, Mar 03, 1998 at 02:41:47AM -0800:
>  * about different things. What I was talking about (and pardon me for not
>  * making myself clear) is installing any X related ports into
>  * /usr/local/X11R6/*, not installing all of X into /usr/local. My
> 
> Let me make myself clear one more time; and I'll shut up.
> 
> This is not a FreeBSD issue.  It is *not possible* for us to change
> this without massive imake hacking.  Talk with the XFree86 folks about
> it if you really care about it.

I'm afraid you misunderstood the argument. I was talking about X11 ports
_that build without imake_. There're quite a few. rxvt(1) is a good example.
These ports are now forced into /usr/X11R6 by USE_X11 (without USE_IMAKE);
bsd.port.mk then selects PREFIX to be either /usr/X11R6 or /usr/local, based
on whether USE_X11 is defined. PREFIX is then picked up either by
configure or custom Makefile, etc... 

Again, an /etc/make.conf _non-default_ flag could force USE_X11 to mean
PREFIX=/usr/local/X11R6 (or even specify the dir in the flag, instead
of making it boolean), and force bsd.port.mk not to run mtree to 
reaffirm/recreate X11's dir structure in $PREFIX, or run it /usr/local,
or whatever.

And - lo and behold - at least the non-imake ports go cleanly into
/usr/local/X11R6.

(I guess if I repeat this a few more times, Jordan will agree just to
shut me up ;)).

-- 
Anatoly Vorobey,
mellon@pobox.com http://pobox.com/~mellon/
"Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly" - G.K.Chesterton


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message