bad link in octave when install package using pkg_add -p

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:01:12PM -0600, John E. Hein wrote:
> 
> >Submitter-Id:	current-users
> >Originator:	John E. Hein
> >Organization:	Timing Solutions
> >Confidential:	no
> >Synopsis:	bad link in octave when install package using pkg_add -p
> >Severity:	non-critical
> >Priority:	medium
> >Category:	ports
> >Class:		sw-bug
> >Release:	FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE i386
> >Environment:
> System: FreeBSD Elmer.timing.com 4.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #0: Wed Jan 2 03:24:03 MST 2002 root at Bugs.timing.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/LOCAL_MP i386
> 
> 
> 
> >Description:
> 
> 	If you build a package for math/octave, then try to install
> 	the package to a non-default location using pkg_add -p (as
> 	you might if you were building a system under a different
> 	mount point, like a chroot), the lib/octave sym link will
> 	point to the wrong place.

This is not supported.  Many ports need to hard-code their
installation prefix within binaries, so there's no way in general to
make this work.

Kris
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