On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Warren Block <wbl...@wonkity.com> wrote: > The section on PREFIX and DESTDIR in the Porter's Handbook is unclear and > confusing. Following up from a thread in -doc, here are the proposed > changes so far.
Thanks for working on this. > Beyond some rewriting and clarification, I removed the mention of LOCALBASE > sometimes being /opt, which is covered by saying it can be a custom path. It may be useful to give an explicit example of what paths users choose. > Is there any reason to keep the references to /usr/X11R6? No, all references to X11BASE will be removed shortly anyways. > is not clear, and was rewritten to > > PREFIX should not be set explicitly in a port's Makefile. Users > installing the port may have set PREFIX to a custom location, and the > port should respect that setting. > > Does that capture the intended meaning of the original? Has it left > anything out? This is much better. -- Eitan Adler _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"