Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 17:13:42 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ldconfig finding libraries, but ld is not. Message-ID: <14380.47942.986074.382586@guru.phone.net> In-Reply-To: <19991112165241.E69871@relay.nuxi.com> References: <14379.17630.340446.163663@guru.phone.net> <199911121710.MAA06277@server.baldwin.cx> <14380.20173.800799.137562@guru.phone.net> <19991112165241.E69871@relay.nuxi.com>
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David O'Brien writes: ;->On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 09:30:53AM -0800, Mike Meyer wrote: ;->> That's the same headache, only in a different place. The traffic on the ;->> ports list suggests that support for PREFIX isn't universal as well. ;->In what way? Just - well, you noted it yourself right here: ;->> Come to think of it - does the OS install let me specify what PREFIX ;->> should be when installing packages? ;->Yes, ``pkg_add -p /usr/foo''. The problem of course is that the value of ;->PREFIX is burned into many packages. You'd be sucessful if you build the ;->ports yourself, setting "PREFIX=/foo" (or even PREFIX=/) But that's the wrong question. Part of the install process includes selecting packages to load. That's all nice & user-friendly & GUI-ish. The question is: can I set PREFIX for packages that are installed at that point? For that matter, if those packages have references to things in /usr/include and I do "pkg_add -p /usr/pkg" - what happens to those references? ;->> Ports and packages *do* come with the OS. When I boot from the FreeBSD ;->They do come with the OS, but the code is not maintained by FreeBSD ;->developers. Right. That's a good reason for them not to go in /usr. That they come with the OS is a good reason for them not to go in /usr/local. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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