Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 16:52:41 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ldconfig finding libraries, but ld is not. Message-ID: <19991112165241.E69871@relay.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <14380.20173.800799.137562@guru.phone.net> References: <14379.17630.340446.163663@guru.phone.net> <199911121710.MAA06277@server.baldwin.cx> <14380.20173.800799.137562@guru.phone.net>
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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? > 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=/) > 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. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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