Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 12:40:07 +0200 From: Jeremy Lea <reg@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Peter Schultz <peter@jocose.org>, gnome@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports problem: where to start Message-ID: <20020223124007.A66134@shale.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <20020222092008.B3128@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.ORG on Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 09:20:08AM -0800 References: <3C766FFD.3040800@jocose.org> <20020222092008.B3128@dragon.nuxi.com>
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Hi,
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 09:20:08AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 10:21:17AM -0600, Peter Schultz wrote:
> > ===> Installing for open-motif-devel-2.1.30
> > ===> open-motif-devel-2.1.30 depends on shared library: X11.6 - found
> > mkdir: /: Is a directory
> > *** Error code 1
> Please ask portmgr@freebsd.org to undo, or otherwise fix what ever commit
> they made to bsd.port.mk that broke having PREFIX=/ for binary ports.
open-motif-devel is a really ugly port. It downloads a package, then
extracts it over / then proceeds to go playing in /var/db/pkg,
forgetting about +REQUIRED_BY, etc.
It should be really simple to change the port to use pkg_add, which work
perfertly. As in:
do-install:
pkg_add ${DISTFILES}
Regards,
-Jeremy
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