From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Apr 18 13:24:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDB4637B422 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 13:24:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.47.12]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAAD66; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 13:29:56 -0700 Message-ID: <3ADDF7F9.53C9472C@acuson.com> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 13:24:25 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Aaron Bush Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to customize ports? References: <3ADDE9B3.1DC04ECB@mail.microcenter.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Aaron Bush wrote: > > I am looking for the correct/propper way to customize a port (ie. change > prefix path, etc.). Wow! What a lot of work you are putting yourself through! Go read the FAQ and the relevant sections. There's a lot of information there. Basically, to change the default prefix, I do "PREFIX=/usr/foo make install". This is just one example. For more involved "customizations", you can build in stages (make fetch, make extract, make configure, etc). I've also changed the port's Makefile to send it my configure arguments. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message