Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 10:42:55 -0800 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> To: Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/local/bin [was: Re: executable scripts] Message-ID: <19990103104255.A9588@wopr.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: <19990103105843.6982.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au>; from Greg Black on Sun, Jan 03, 1999 at 08:58:43PM %2B1000 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901021754370.11212-100000@guru.phone.net> <19990103105843.6982.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au>
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On Sun, Jan 03, 1999 at 08:58:43PM +1000, Greg Black wrote: > Anyway, my question is: is there some way to have the ports put > into some other prefix than /usr/local so that it can be used as > expected? Or do we have to reinvent /usr/local with some less > intuitive name? Just set PREFIX to what you want (on the make(1) command line or in the environment): $ cd /usr/ports/foo/bar $ make PREFIX=/opt install (Ports are *supposed* to honor PREFIX and work properly. If you find that one of them breaks when you do this, please notify us so we can fix it.) Matthew -- Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/pgp.key for PGP public key 0x67203349. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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