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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)


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