On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 03:18:40PM -0500, circuit6engineering wrote: > I'm going to tinker with [werc][1] under chroot'ed Apache. > > [1]: http://werc.cat-v.org/ > > werc requires plan9port. If I attempt to build plan9port with: > > make LOCALBASE=/var/www > ... > ===> Extracting for plan9port-20120508p0 > /bin/sh: bzip2: not found > tar: End of archive volume 1 reached > tar: Sorry, unable to determine archive format. > *** Error code 1 > ... > > but 'make install' works as expected. I can copy > /usr/local/plan9/bin to /var/www/bin > > and continue from there but I am curious why the LOCALBASE method > failed. Any speculations or comments on best practices?
You're looking for PREFIX. Read bsd.port.mk(5) to learn about the differences between PREFIX, TRUEPREFIX and LOCALBASE. Landry
