ports/115988: converters/libiconv port doesn't handle PREFIX well

Pav Lucistnik pav at FreeBSD.org
Tue Sep 4 00:40:07 PDT 2007


The following reply was made to PR ports/115988; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Pav Lucistnik <pav at FreeBSD.org>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, mah at jump-ing.de
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/115988: converters/libiconv port doesn't handle PREFIX
	well
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:30:24 +0200

 If you install into /usr man pages go to /usr/share/man not
 into /usr/man. That a special behaviour of /usr and it's expected.
 See bsd.port.mk around lines 2884-6. Nothing to be seen here.
 
 That said, it's really a dumb idea trying to push libiconv into /usr
 
 Can we close this ticket?
 
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 Pav Lucistnik <pav at oook.cz>
               <pav at FreeBSD.org>
 
 What do we know about love? Love is like a pear.  Pear is sweet and have
 a specific shape. Try to exactly define the shape of a pear.
   -- Marigold: 50 Years Of Poetry


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