From owner-cvs-all Wed Aug 29 11:15:40 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [64.0.106.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12F1237B403; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 11:15:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA55596; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 14:15:32 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 14:15:31 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Garrett Wollman Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: etc/rc.d/kdelibs.sh (Re: cvs commit: ports/x11/kdelibs2 Makefile) In-Reply-To: <200108291725.f7THPG551262@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Garrett Wollman wrote: > Because the compilation process (for ports/packages in particular) has > no a priori knowledge of where the libraries in question will be > located on the target system. We try to build binaries that are as > free as possible from assumptions about how the filesystem structure > is arranged for optional add-on software. So a utility to edit the comipiled in search paths might be useful. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | For Great Justice! | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message