manpath change for ports ?

[Julian Elischer]

On 8/3/17 11:39 pm, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org> writes:
>> I would like to propose a change in the localbase hier for ports
>>
>> I think we should add /usr/local/share/man in the manpath along with
>> at first and maybe instead of in long term.
> 2) plus info -> share/info as suggested by jbeich
>
> 3) plus libdata/pkgconfig -> lib/pkgconfig
>
> These three items will ensure that "./configure --prefix=/usr/local &&
> make install" will do the right thing out of the box - by changing our
> definition of "the right thing" to match what the GNU autotools have
> been doing for at least 15 years.
>
> 4) Remove the hardcoded library path in lang/gcc*
>
> This makes it possible to work on software that includes both libraries
> and programs while an earlier copy of the same software is already
> installed.  With the current state of gcc, the programs you are working
> on will be linked against the version of the library that's already
> installed instead of the version you just compiled, and there is nothing
unless you use --sysroot=...
> you can do to prevent it.  You won't notice anything if all you ever do
> is "make && make install", because the new library will replace the old,
> but if you try to run your program directly from the build tree, it will
> use the wrong library.  This can be incredibly frustrating if you're not
> aware of it - imagine you're trying to fix a bug in that library and no
> matter what you do, your regression test keeps failing...
>
> DES