Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 09:40:30 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Jeremy Lea <reg@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Peter Schultz <peter@jocose.org>, gnome@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports problem: where to start Message-ID: <20020223094030.A2616@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20020223124007.A66134@shale.csir.co.za>; from reg@FreeBSD.ORG on Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 12:40:07PM %2B0200 References: <3C766FFD.3040800@jocose.org> <20020222092008.B3128@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020223124007.A66134@shale.csir.co.za>
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On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 12:40:07PM +0200, Jeremy Lea wrote:
> 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}
Have you tested this? There was some reason I did not do that -- but I
do not remember now what it was.
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