Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 20:08:57 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ldconfig finding libraries, but ld is not. Message-ID: <14384.55513.350588.305393@guru.phone.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911151957160.33838-100000@hub.freebsd.org> References: <14380.47942.986074.382586@guru.phone.net> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911151957160.33838-100000@hub.freebsd.org>
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Kris Kennaway writes: ;->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 :-) The next time I upgrade all/most of my ports, I'll probably point them at something else. Then fix and send-pr (with patches, of course) anything that doesn't work properly that way. Of course, if the tool in question is something that comes in binary, I'm pretty much scrod. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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