Hello. My intention is to install several ports into different paths other than the default /usr/local. Setting PREFIX to the desired path isn't the right solution, because the environment I expect to use is a diskless environment, that means after diskless systems have already mounted their working areas from the main fileserver, the base PATH environment changed.
This is if I try to install pvm libraries into PREFIX=/diskless/pvmsystem/usr/local (where /diskless/pvmsystem is the chrooted / nfs exported base filesystem for the pvm systems) several paths and symbolic links get setup in the wrong way while these are set when compiled. The same problem is with X11 environment. At the moment, I do the stuff with a self brewed script which needs to find all the stuff installed on the local bott server for the diskless nodes so I need to install the stuff localy first, the copy the libs and binaries to the appropriate place within the diskless tree. As you can imagine, this is a stupid and hard way to do. How are you doing this? Is there a primer for FreeBSD how to setup such a customized environment? My intention is that I setup only a special environment variable to say the ports collection building process that an installation should be done to a different path as it should be used afterwards when the system is started diskless (means: compiling with the normal PREFIX set to /usr/local, but installed later using the target base directory where the diskless environment resides). Can someone help? Thnaks in advance, Oliver -- MfG O. Hartmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------ Systemadministration des Institutes fuer Physik der Atmosphaere (IPA) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz Becherweg 21 55099 Mainz Tel: +496131/3924662 (Maschinenraum) Tel: +496131/3924144 (Buero) FAX: +496131/3923532 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
