On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Michael D. Norwick <mnorw...@centurytel.net > wrote:
> Good evening; > > When building and installing an application from ports, how does the > original binary or script, in /usr/bin, /usr/lib, /usr/etc..., from the > distribution, get removed? It doesn't. > The make install foo command does not appear to symlink the original > application location to the new one in /usr/local/whatever. Does it even > matter? > What is your end goal? man hier(7) if you want to know where things live. This contains a simple method to to build a FreeBSD gui install. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-February/212899.html FreeBSD documentation isn't like Debian, if you follow the handbook exactly and completely, it nearly always works. -- Adam Vande More _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
