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From: Paul English <penglish@hydro.washington.edu>
To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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Subject: Re: --prefix for installing a port?
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Thanks, that works perfectly.

Paul
> > Hi,
> > 	How can I tell a port to install itself in an alternate location
> > (like the configure --prefix option)?
> 
> The PREFIX env variable
> 
> > It seems that some ports install in
> > /usr when I want to make sure they all end up in /usr/local
> 
> These are bugs, and should be reported.  In particular, if you're
> building the port correctly and it still does this, then PREFIX won't
> help (they should already be going in /usr/local).
> 
> Kris
> 


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