From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 10 10:26:43 2000 From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 10 10:26:41 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gw.nectar.com (gw.nectar.com [208.42.49.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B63A37B400 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 10:26:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by gw.nectar.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 21B65193E1; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 12:26:40 -0600 (CST) Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 12:26:40 -0600 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Forrest Aldrich , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Package installation location Message-ID: <20001210122640.B20201@spawn.nectar.com> Mail-Followup-To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Forrest Aldrich , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20001210125026.A27718@drama.navipath.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from des@ofug.org on Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 07:16:15PM +0100 X-Url: http://www.nectar.com/ Sender: nectar@nectar.com Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 07:16:15PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Forrest Aldrich writes: > > Within the scope of this problem, would it not be simple to code in a > > configuration diretive in the build process, such that a simple entry > > in /etc/make.conf would tell the ports build where to install ($prefix)? > > You're about six years late. The ports system has used $PREFIX for > precisely this purpose since October 1994. Actually see LOCALBASE, and perhaps X11BASE, which influence PREFIX. This is what you'd want to set in /etc/make.conf. -- Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message