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Document that some imake/Perl ports don't respect PREFIX properly.

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PR:		23022
Submitted by:	Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
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Ben Smithurst 2000-11-23 11:32:51 +00:00
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en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.sgml
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<!--
The FreeBSD Documentation Project
$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.sgml,v 1.110 2000/06/09 18:08:44 nik Exp $
$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.sgml,v 1.111 2000/06/14 20:30:37 jim Exp $
-->
<chapter id="ports">
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<para>will combine the two (it is too long to write fully on
the page, but it should give you the general idea).</para>
<para>Some ports that use &man.imake.1; (a part of the X Windows
System) don't work well with <makevar>PREFIX</makevar>, and will insist on
installing under <filename>/usr/X11R6</filename>. Similarly, some Perl ports
ignore <makevar>PREFIX</makevar> and install in the Perl tree. Making these
ports respect <makevar>PREFIX</makevar> is a difficult or impossible
job.</para>
<para>If you do not fancy typing all that in every time you
install a port, it is a good idea to put these variables
into your environment. Read the man page for your shell for

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en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.sgml
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<!--
The FreeBSD Documentation Project
$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.sgml,v 1.110 2000/06/09 18:08:44 nik Exp $
$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.sgml,v 1.111 2000/06/14 20:30:37 jim Exp $
-->
<chapter id="ports">
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<para>will combine the two (it is too long to write fully on
the page, but it should give you the general idea).</para>
<para>Some ports that use &man.imake.1; (a part of the X Windows
System) don't work well with <makevar>PREFIX</makevar>, and will insist on
installing under <filename>/usr/X11R6</filename>. Similarly, some Perl ports
ignore <makevar>PREFIX</makevar> and install in the Perl tree. Making these
ports respect <makevar>PREFIX</makevar> is a difficult or impossible
job.</para>
<para>If you do not fancy typing all that in every time you
install a port, it is a good idea to put these variables
into your environment. Read the man page for your shell for