From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Mar 19 11:56:25 1995 Return-Path: ports-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA19736 for ports-outgoing; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 11:56:25 -0800 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA19730 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 11:56:22 -0800 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id LAA24467; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 11:55:32 -0800 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199503191955.LAA24467@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Gripe of the week (tm) :-) To: mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray) Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 11:55:32 -0800 (PST) Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199503191926.VAA19854@grunt.grondar.za> from "Mark Murray" at Mar 19, 95 09:26:25 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1038 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? Look at /usr/share/mk/bsd.prot.mk. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD