Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 13:00:36 -0700 From: Ernest Hua <hua@chromatic.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> Cc: hua@chromatic.com, kientzle@netcom.com, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux async vs. FreeBSD sync (fwd) Message-ID: <199608282000.NAA05510@server1.chromatic.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Aug 1996 14:14:57 EDT." <Pine.OSF.3.95.960828141203.23206Q-100000@thurston.eng.umd.edu>
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> > I've been using a private scheme doing precisely the same thing > > (each application version to its own directory). This has the > > enormous advantage of being able to upgrade/downgrade a single > > application in a snap. > > I don't understand completely why you'd do this. If you want ispell in > /usr/local/app/ispell/bin, then do the ports make as: > make PREFIX=/usr/local/app/ispell > and it would install there, unless it was an X11 application. The X11 > apps will probably do that too in a little while (watch this space!) I have not been using ports yet, but I just finally finished setting up a local archive for Chromatic internal use, so it will be a lot easier. > Of course, your path statement would look like hell. Nope. It will just be /usr/local/bin because, like the original suggestion, I also symbolic link everything into /usr/local/bin (as well as /usr/local/include, /usr/local/lib, /usr/local/lib/app-defaults, ...). Ern
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