From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 13 12:04:07 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E55FD16A4CE for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 12:04:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from peedub.jennejohn.org (Ja34a.j.pppool.de [85.74.163.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E05C743D54 for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 12:04:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from garyj@jennejohn.org) Received: from jennejohn.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by peedub.jennejohn.org (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j1DC440E005002; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 13:04:04 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from garyj@jennejohn.org) Message-Id: <200502131204.j1DC440E005002@peedub.jennejohn.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.0 06/18/2004 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Kris Kennaway In-Reply-To: Message from Kris Kennaway <20050213030943.GA27302@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 13:04:04 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn cc: ports@FreeBSD.org cc: pawel.worach@telia.com Subject: Re: xemacs and /usr/local/lib/xemacs X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 12:04:08 -0000 Kris Kennaway writes: > How hard would it be to patch xemacs to use /usr/local/share/xemacs > instead of /usr/local/lib/xemacs (which violates hier(7))? > It can be done but it's a PITA. The port will have to use a whole slew of make command line variales as described in INSTALLING. If xemacs is changed then xemacs-packages should also be changed since it also installs into /usr/local/lib. Not to forget all the language-specific ports (mule, etc.). --- Gary Jennejohn / garyj[at]jennejohn.org gj[at]freebsd.org garyj[at]denx.de