Re: Porter's Handbook: PREFIX and DESTDIR

2012-01-09 Thread Warren Block
The updated PREFIX and DESTDIR section has been committed. Thanks for the feedback and suggestions! ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsub

Re: Porter's Handbook: PREFIX and DESTDIR

2012-01-04 Thread Warren Block
New version in the same place. Existing section: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/porting-prefix.html Proposed: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/porters-prefix/book.html#PORTING-PREFIX diff: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/porters-prefix/patch-porters-prefix.diff

Re: Porter's Handbook: PREFIX and DESTDIR

2012-01-04 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Eitan Adler wrote: 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. Done, but not in a way that ad

Re: Porter's Handbook: PREFIX and DESTDIR

2012-01-04 Thread Eitan Adler
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Warren Block 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 remov

Porter's Handbook: PREFIX and DESTDIR

2012-01-04 Thread Warren Block
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. Existing section: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/porting-prefix.html Proposed: http://www.wonkity.c