> The main reason for doing that sort of thing with most unixoid systems
> is that using a unique prefix for every software package you install
> means that you can easily identify which files belong to what package
> when later on it comes time to update things.
I understand this, but I still li
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 09:56:27AM -0800, Tony Jones wrote:
>
> > > why is it in /usr/local/perl/bin? As far as I have seen, the ports
> > > collection doesn't do that. did you install as a port (make install in
> > > /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8)?
> >
> > Yes. make install PREFIX=/usr/local/perl
On Dec 11, 2003, at 9:54 AM, Tony Jones wrote:
I'm very unfamiliar with the ports system. I've never heard of
portinstall
or portupgrade.
Just running make && make install in the appropriate port subdirectory.
It seems to me you're making this really complicated: I don't know what
difference
> > why is it in /usr/local/perl/bin? As far as I have seen, the ports
> > collection doesn't do that. did you install as a port (make install in
> > /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8)?
>
> Yes. make install PREFIX=/usr/local/perl
I of course also did 'make PREFIX=/usr/local/perl' before doing the ins
> why is it in /usr/local/perl/bin? As far as I have seen, the ports
> collection doesn't do that. did you install as a port (make install in
> /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8)?
Yes. make install PREFIX=/usr/local/perl
Is that bad? I like to have large packages installed into seperate
sub-directorie
On Dec 10, 2003, at 8:34 PM, Tony Jones wrote:
At this point, /usr/local/perl/bin/perl is installed
why is it in /usr/local/perl/bin? As far as I have seen, the ports
collection doesn't do that. did you install as a port (make install in
/usr/ports/lang/perl5.8)?
What would happen if you were t
> Install Perl 5.8.2 from ports (or source)
I did this (/usr/ports/lang/perl5.8).
Made fine, but grokked during 'make install':
/bin/mkdir -p /usr/local/perl/lib/perl5/5.8.2/BSDPAN/ExtUtils
install -c -o root -g wheel -m 444
/usr/ports/lang/perl5.8/work/BSDPAN-5.8.0/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
/usr/
