From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 16 19:46:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id AC33A14E20; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 19:46:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B0DA1CD441; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 19:46:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@hub.freebsd.org) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 19:46:38 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway To: Mike Meyer Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ldconfig finding libraries, but ld is not. In-Reply-To: <14384.55513.350588.305393@guru.phone.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Mike Meyer wrote: > Kris Kennaway writes: > ;->David already answered this one. Packages, by necessity, often need to > ;->have some hardcoded prefix in them. If you don't like the default, you're > ;->free to build the port by hand by doing cd /usr/ports/foo/bar && make > ;->install PREFIX=/usr/mumble. Ports which don't allow this are broken and > ;->must be send-pr'ed so we can fix them. Vague complaints don't count :-) > > The next time I upgrade all/most of my ports, I'll probably point them > at something else. Then fix and send-pr (with patches, of course) > anything that doesn't work properly that way. Cool, thanks! > Of course, if the tool in question is something that comes in binary, > I'm pretty much scrod. This is true, but fortunately I don't think this is a frequent occurrance, if it happens at all. Still, let us know if you find one. Kris ---- Cthulhu for President! For when you're tired of choosing the _lesser_ of two evils.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message