PREFIX problems...

Sam Lawrance lawrance at freebsd.org
Fri Feb 10 05:42:59 PST 2006


On 11/02/2006, at 12:40 AM, Vasil Dimov wrote:

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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:
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>>>> PREFIX?=	${LOCALBASE}/bigsister
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>> 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"?).
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> Then the port will install in /usr/opt as expected, notice the ?=

Yes, but ordinarily the expected behaviour would be that it installs  
into /usr/opt/bigsister.



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