Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 00:40:35 +0200 From: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nfs mounting /usr/local/bin as /opt/bin? Message-ID: <35201F63.89F64CDD@partitur.se> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980330093550.24468J-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Doug White wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Palle Girgensohn wrote: > > > Are there any ports that will break if they are used from another > > directory (i.e. /opt/bin) than what they were originally installed into > > (i.e. /usr/local/bin)? I'm not considering daemons and stuff, but user > > programs. > > Not that I know of, as long as /opt/bin is in your path you will probably > be okay. > > Hint hint: > > > /opt/bin otherserver:/usr/local/bin > > /opt/lib otherserver:/usr/local/lib > > Run `ldconfig -m /opt/lib' to pick up those libraries. > > > /opt/man oterhserver:/usr/local/man > > Edit /etc/manpath.config and add this directory as optional. > Yea, that's what I had in mind. Just curious if any programs have hard coded paths in them; deamons usually have, but that's beyond the scope... I guess I'll try and see... :) Anybody know if I can create a PATH that chooses certain (local) directories before other (nfs-mounted), e.g. by choosing a certain order? Isn't stuff in the PATH usually sotred in a hash table? Hard to predict then, I presume... /Palle To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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