Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 14:23:26 -0500 From: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> Cc: Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org>, "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/sysutils/fcron Makefile Message-ID: <20010825142326.L35352@bohr.physics.purdue.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010825170156.B33864@mithrandr.moria.org>; from nbm@mithrandr.moria.org on Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 05:01:56PM %2B0200 References: <200108242259.f7OMxmD37685@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010824193607.A59099@peitho.fxp.org> <20010825170156.B33864@mithrandr.moria.org>
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On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 05:01:56PM +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner (nbm@mithrandr.moria.org) wrote:
> > Won't this cause problems for those building ports as non-root?
> > Couldn't we simply patch configure[.in] to take our word for where
> > the proper etc dir is instead of bailing if it isn't found?
>
> Yes, that is _much_ better. In theory, we should be able to build with
> ${PREFIX} read-only.
And in practice that's the best way to do it. Some authors are
stupid and require uid's or similar during configure or
build time... there is never a valid reason to write ${PREFIX} or
anything outside ${WRKSRC} during build time or before that.
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wca
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