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Date:      Tue, 15 Jul 2003 13:22:59 -0400
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        "Remington L." <cableboy@charter.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Changing pkg-plist
Message-ID:  <3F143873.5080407@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <auto-000079701979@remt29.cluster1.charter.net>
References:  <auto-000079701979@remt29.cluster1.charter.net>

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Remington L. wrote:
> I am currently working on creating my first port. The port installs a
> library to ${HOME/.blah/something.so
> 
> When I write the pkg-plist it only looks at the /usr directorys. How can I
> get this changed, documentation on this subject is hard to find. And
> oppologies if this is the wrong list, perhaps someone can direct me to the
> right place :)

You should ask about ports on the <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> mailing list.

Anyway, the directory tree that ports get installed under is known as the 
$PREFIX, and defaults to /usr/local.  A port isn't allowed to change the install 
prefix (because the user might change it),  Someone using this port of yours 
could do a "make PREFIX=/home/user install" to place it under their homedir, if 
that's something you want to look into.

-- 
-Chuck



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