Joshua Root <[email protected]> writes: > The prefix. Our binary archives are built for the default prefix > /opt/local and simply extracting them somewhere else often (usually?) > won't work. That's not because of anything MacPorts does, but just > because software that is not carefully constructed to be relocatable > will have installation paths "baked in" in many places.
Thanks for clearing that up. I guessed that this was the case; I've poked around in these binary archives a few times . I noticed that there are lots of hardcoded paths as you say, so this makes sense. I was afraid that perhaps there was some magical caveat for a source-based installation that I wasn't aware of.
