11 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-questionssetting X11BASE| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| per...@pluto.rain.com | Feb 22, 2008 7:12 am | |
| Mel | Feb 22, 2008 12:28 pm | |
| Paul Schmehl | Feb 22, 2008 3:30 pm | |
| per...@pluto.rain.com | Feb 23, 2008 8:11 am | |
| per...@pluto.rain.com | Feb 23, 2008 8:11 am | |
| Dominic Fandrey | Feb 23, 2008 8:19 am | |
| Mel | Feb 23, 2008 11:59 am | |
| per...@pluto.rain.com | Feb 23, 2008 6:12 pm | |
| Mel | Feb 23, 2008 6:32 pm | |
| Paul Schmehl | Feb 23, 2008 6:34 pm | |
| per...@pluto.rain.com | Feb 24, 2008 8:10 am |
| Subject: | setting X11BASE | |
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| From: | Paul Schmehl (pau...@utdallas.edu) | |
| Date: | Feb 23, 2008 6:34:53 pm | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-questions | |
--On February 23, 2008 9:58:22 AM -0800 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
I'm finding it especially "interesting" that /etc/make.conf, which to judge from its location is part of the base, depends on a setting from something in the /usr/ports tree.
Well, actually it doesn't. What gives you this impression?
Paul Schmehl reported where LOCALBASE is set: in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk
Now I'm being told to add this:
X11BASE=${LOCALBASE}
to /etc/make.conf, so that /etc/make.conf needs LOCALBASE to be set in order to set X11BASE correctly. Is that not a dependency?
You're looking at it in the reverse of what it really is.
LOCALBASE is set in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk so that *ports* know where to install stuff. And X11BASE needs to be set to ${LOCALBASE} in /etc/make.conf because *ports* need to know that X11BASE has changed from the previous default of /usr/X11R6.
A dependency is a program that a *port* requires to function properly, not a *location* where ports install their files.
Paul Schmehl (pau...@utdallas.edu) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/