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Date:      Sat, 7 Oct 2000 19:32:22 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        dima@unixfreak.org
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installing a port to a differant location than the default
Message-ID:  <14815.49302.502834.299094@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <20001007225515.6513A1F21@static.unixfreak.org>
References:  <14815.43020.536133.284102@guru.mired.org> <20001007225515.6513A1F21@static.unixfreak.org>

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Dima Dorfman writes:
> > Dima Dorfman writes:
> > > > On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 06:37:38AM -0700, Chip wrote:
> > > > > I have several hard disks in my pc, with the standard /usr on the
> > > > > first disk with the standard directories, but the other two disks 
> > > > > are setup as /usr2 and /usr3. Is there a way to install a port or
> > > > > package into one either /usr2 or /usr3?
> > > > pkg_add -p <prefix> or setting $PREFIX for /usr/ports.
> > > Or, if that doesn't work (I tried using PREFIX= some time ago but it
> > > didn't change the prefix), try:
> > Some ports are broken, and don't honor PREFIX. Worse yet, some are
> > partly broken, and have some things that install in PREFIX, and some
> > that install in /usr/local.
> I don't know about PREFIX, but DESTDIR always seems to work for me.

Prefix seems to work about 80% the time for me. Since all DESTDIR
really does is set LOCALBASE (and things that depend on it - like
PREFIX), I'd expect it to be about the same. 

DESTDIR doesn't seem to solve those problems. For instance,
sysutils/idled *insists* that it's going to install things in
/usr/local. Setting neither PREFIX nor DESTDIR corrects this. As a
result, when it tries to strip the installed binary (from the right
place), it doesn't work.

	<mike



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