Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 20:04:53 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ldconfig finding libraries, but ld is not. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911151957160.33838-100000@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <14380.47942.986074.382586@guru.phone.net>
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On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Mike Meyer wrote: > But that's the wrong question. Part of the install process includes > selecting packages to load. That's all nice & user-friendly & > GUI-ish. The question is: can I set PREFIX for packages that are > installed at that point? No, because the GUI tool is intended for people who are not comfortable or capable with the command-line. If you want to do something advanced like hand-tune which filesystem hierarchy your packages get installed, you have to do it the old-fashioned way. Adding a knob to sysinstall asking people where they want to install the package would only confuse the primary target demographic of sysinstall, newish system users, for whom /usr/local is likely to be quite adequate. You seem to be very much in a minority of people who are unhappy with the /usr/local system..given that there exists a simple way for you to get what you want (see below), it's not reasonable to ask FreeBSD to reorganise around you. > For that matter, if those packages have references to things in > /usr/include and I do "pkg_add -p /usr/pkg" - what happens to those > references? David already answered this one. Packages, by necessity, often need to have some hardcoded prefix in them. If you don't like the default, you're free to build the port by hand by doing cd /usr/ports/foo/bar && make install PREFIX=/usr/mumble. Ports which don't allow this are broken and must be send-pr'ed so we can fix them. Vague complaints don't count :-) Kris ---- Cthulhu for President! For when you're tired of choosing the _lesser_ of two evils.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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