Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 19:24:11 -0700 (PDT) From: David Kulp <dkulp@neomorphic.com> To: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xview-lib: /usr/ports expected? Message-ID: <199810090224.TAA22078@board66.cruzers.com> In-Reply-To: <199810090123.SAA00792@bubble.didi.com> References: <361D203B.200E2FDF@neomorphic.com> <199810090123.SAA00792@bubble.didi.com>
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Satoshi Asami writes: > * in the xview-lib port, it expects there do be a > * /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/xview-config/ > * but I was building elsewhere, i.e. not under > * /usr/ports. (I can imagine the situation where > * a non-privileged user might want to build a port, > * for example.) > > Actually you're supposed to be setting PORTSDIR by yourself in that > case. :) > Ah hah! Thanks for the clue. I'm probably not the only one that gets all my ports off of the website (since my ports collection has long gone out of date and I can't be bothered keeping it up). The tar files from www.freebsd.org all expand to pub/FreeBSD/...etc..., and this doesn't match up with /usr/ports, so I would think that PORTSDIR might deserve a little rethinking. Just a thought. I might mention while I have your attention that I very much appreciate the work that you ports folks do! The ease of installation for just about everything under the sun is something that I catch myself taking for granted because 95% of the time it just works! Thank you thank you. > * Couldn't xview-lib try cd-ing to ../xview-config > * instead? > > It can't hurt, so I changed it. Thanks! > > Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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