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Date:      Wed, 28 Aug 1996 13:43:56 -0700
From:      Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com>
To:        Ernest Hua <hua@chromatic.com>
Cc:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>, kientzle@netcom.com, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Linux async vs. FreeBSD sync (fwd) 
Message-ID:  <m0uvrSv-000JShC@main.statsci.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Aug 1996 13:00:36 -0700." <199608282000.NAA05510@server1.chromatic.com> 
References:  <199608282000.NAA05510@server1.chromatic.com> 

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Ernest Hua <hua@chromatic.com> wrote:

> 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, ...).

But, if the PREFIX is actually compiled in, you might not have to symlink the
rest of those directories (the actual binaries should have the explicit path
to them). For example, I typically build GNU emacs like this:

	cd emacs-19.33
	mkdir FREEBSD210
	cd FREEBSD210
	../configure --prefix=/sw/local/gnu --exec-prefix=/sw/.mtype/gnu
	GNU make

[note: /sw/.mtype is amd-redirected to a platform-specific directory]

then I can basically do this:

	cd /usr/local/bin
	ln -s /sw/local/gnu/bin/* .   # or whatever

which isn't really that bad to maintain if the software's installation
directory structure is reasonably organized.

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