PREFIX problems...

Vasil Dimov vd at FreeBSD.org
Fri Feb 10 05:40:50 PST 2006


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On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 12:16:15AM +1100, Sam Lawrance wrote:
> >On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:26:01 +0200
> >Vasil Dimov <vd at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
...
> >>PREFIX?=	${LOCALBASE}/bigsister
...
> No, it's best that you don't set PREFIX (especially like that - what  
> happens if someone comes along and does "make install PREFIX=/usr/ 
> opt"?).

Then the port will install in /usr/opt as expected, notice the ?=

- -- 
Vasil Dimov
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