--On February 23, 2008 9:58:22 AM -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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