Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 19:14:46 +0700 From: Olivier Nicole <olivier.nicole@cs.ait.ac.th> To: FreeBSD FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Path settings Message-ID: <CA%2Bg%2BBviNzH1a_S21gXsWi_p8wZ1cfb0ZK0O07FoXAX-LCeb-Sw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20150408080410.437e58a9@seibercom.net> References: <20150408080410.437e58a9@seibercom.net>
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Jerry, > I have never understood which comes first in the path setting; "/usr/bin" > or "/usr/local/bin". The same can be said for "/usr/sbin" > and /usr/local/sbin". > > The reason I am asking is because I have "openssl" installed from ports. If I > have the former path setting and run "which openssl", the system openssl is > reported. However, if I switch the path setting to the latter, and rerun the > command, the port version of openssl is revealed. which will try the various path and report the first occurence it finds. So /usr/bin:/usr/local/bin will find openssl in /usr/bin first and /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin will find openssl in /usr/local/bin first. It all depends on what you intend to do. Best regards, Olivier > > I have "WITH_OPENSSL_PORT=yes" in the "/etc/make.conf" file if that makes any > difference. > > -- > Jerry
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