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From: "Jared H. Hudson" <jhhudso@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Prefixed Emerge's
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 09:48:05
Message-Id: 3CBD8B08.3090603@volumehost.com
In Reply to: RE: [gentoo-dev] Prefixed Emerge's by Sean Mitchell
1 ./configure --prefix=${D}/usr mandir=${D}/usr/share/man || die
2
3 Sean Mitchell wrote:
4 >>A lot of ebuilds are written with the premise that the stuff goes into
5 >>/usr, and have it hard coded. :( Even if portage starts supporting
6 >>custom prefixes, a huge ebuild cleanup effort would be required, as
7 >>far as I understand.
8 >
9 >
10 > What's the alternative to something like
11 >
12 > make prefix=${D}/usr mandir=${D}/usr/share/man install || die
13 >
14 > then? Is there a better way?
15 >
16 > Sean
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