From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Nov 12 16:53:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D728150A4 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 16:53:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA70056; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 16:52:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 16:52:41 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Mike Meyer Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ldconfig finding libraries, but ld is not. Message-ID: <19991112165241.E69871@relay.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <14379.17630.340446.163663@guru.phone.net> <199911121710.MAA06277@server.baldwin.cx> <14380.20173.800799.137562@guru.phone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre1i In-Reply-To: <14380.20173.800799.137562@guru.phone.net> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 09:30:53AM -0800, Mike Meyer wrote: > That's the same headache, only in a different place. The traffic on the > ports list suggests that support for PREFIX isn't universal as well. In what way? > Come to think of it - does the OS install let me specify what PREFIX > should be when installing packages? Yes, ``pkg_add -p /usr/foo''. The problem of course is that the value of PREFIX is burned into many packages. You'd be sucessful if you build the ports yourself, setting "PREFIX=/foo" (or even PREFIX=/) > Ports and packages *do* come with the OS. When I boot from the FreeBSD They do come with the OS, but the code is not maintained by FreeBSD developers. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message