From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Mar 19 11:27:29 1995 Return-Path: ports-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA17720 for ports-outgoing; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 11:27:29 -0800 Received: from grunt.grondar.za (grunt.grondar.za [196.7.18.129]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA17693 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 11:27:04 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grunt.grondar.za (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA19854; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 21:26:25 +0200 Message-Id: <199503191926.VAA19854@grunt.grondar.za> X-Authentication-Warning: grunt.grondar.za: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: "Rodney W. Grimes" cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Gripe of the week (tm) :-) Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 21:26:25 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: ports-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I am in rather strong agreement with Mark on this one. It is rather > painfull for those of us who follow the XFree alpha/beta/release cycle > and blow away our /usr/X11R6 often to have to go back and rebuild > all this stuff. > > Or rembering which ports install into /usr/X11R6 and overriding this > with a PREFIX=/usr/local. I know I loose stuff every time I upgarde > XFree86 :-(. I am confused about how this works. (The PREFIX thingy.) I've grepped around /usr/X11R6/Lib/X11 and some of the X-ports makefiles, and I am badly confused now. (Too much work also!!). There is no mention of PREFIX in any of the {M}{Im}akefiles of the following ports: xv, xearth, ghostview, xdvi. There is also no mention of PREFIX in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/*. Has this ever worked, is is it something else I can bang on? M -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200