Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 11:55:32 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray) Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Gripe of the week (tm) :-) Message-ID: <199503191955.LAA24467@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199503191926.VAA19854@grunt.grondar.za> from "Mark Murray" at Mar 19, 95 09:26:25 pm
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> > 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?
Look at /usr/share/mk/bsd.prot.mk.
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Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD
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