From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 9 19:26:50 2000 From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 9 19:26:49 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C85837B400 for ; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 19:26:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (Ipittythefoolthattrustsident@trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA49396; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 19:26:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eBA3QkG32295; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 19:26:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 19:26:46 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Mike Meyer Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/local misuse (Was: Confusing error messages from shell image activation) Message-ID: <20001209192646.B32252@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <14898.33404.356173.963351@guru.mired.org> <75248.976389688@verdi.nethelp.no> <20001209142430.B671@puck.firepipe.net> <14898.36663.855320.410475@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <14898.36663.855320.410475@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 01:59:51PM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: obrien@NUXI.com Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 01:59:51PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > I know. Unfortunately, support for PREFIX seems to draw more lip > service than actual service. I disagree. If one of the ports I maintain isn't PREFIX-clean, let me know and it _will_ be fixed. If you know others, please open a PR, let me know and I'll assign it to the maintainer. > or that the porters handbook should include instructions for checking > this (it's actually pretty easy), I always thought ``make PREFIX=/tmp/foo package'' is pretty obvious.. but maybe not... -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message