Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Sean Mitchell <SMitchell@×××××××××××××××××××.com>
To: "'gentoo-dev@g.o'" <gentoo-dev@g.o>
Subject: RE: [gentoo-dev] Prefixed Emerge's
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 09:52:08
Message-Id: 23DFAA462CC6A64487613B0E242D9FF706EC21@mercury.phoenix-interactive.com
1 > From: Jared H. Hudson [mailto:jhhudso@××××××××××.com]
2
3 >>>A lot of ebuilds are written with the premise that the
4 >>> stuff goes into /usr, and have it hard coded. :( Even
5 >>> if portage starts supporting
6 >>> custom prefixes, a huge ebuild cleanup effort would be required, as
7 >>> far as I understand.
8
9 >> What's the alternative to something like
10 >>
11 >> make prefix=${D}/usr mandir=${D}/usr/share/man install || die
12 >>
13 >> then? Is there a better way?
14
15 > ./configure --prefix=${D}/usr mandir=${D}/usr/share/man || die
16
17 No, you miss my point.... what's the alternative to hardcoding /usr?
18
19 Cheers,
20
21 Sean

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Prefixed Emerge's "Jared H. Hudson" <jhhudso@××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Prefixed Emerge's Paul de Vrieze <paul@××××××××.net>