Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 10:59:34 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, andreas@freebsd.org Subject: Re: postgresql7 user message contains $PREFIX not /usr/local Message-ID: <397C2196.23289.11751B8F@localhost> In-Reply-To: <397B781B.67FAC6DC@partitur.se>
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On 24 Jul 2000, at 0:56, Palle Girgensohn wrote: > Dan Langille wrote: > > > > I just installed databases/postgresql7 and spotted the following > > message: > > > > To start PostgreSQL, run the startup script: $PREFIX/etc/rc.d/pgsql.sh > > start ===> Compressing manual pages for postgresql-7.0.2 > > > > To be nice to the user, who we all know doesn't know much, should we say > > "/usr/local" instead of "$PREFIX"? > > I guess, if the user is using a different prefix than > /usr/local, the user knows more than the average, and will > exchange /usr/local for their favourite prefix automatically in > his/her mind while reading the message ;-) > > You're probably right, putting /usr/local instead would > probably confuse a smaller amount of users :) Actually, I think it should say /usr/local/ only if that's what PREFIX evaluates to. My initial thoughts were that the code was not correctly evaluating the $PREFIX variable. Rather, the string "$PREFIX" was being printed instead of the value contained within $PREFIX. -- Dan Langille [I'm looking for more work] The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.freebsddiary.org/ FreshPorts - http://freshports.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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