Subject: Re: Has anyone tried building -current as non-root from scratch recently?
To: David Querbach <querbach@realtime.bc.ca>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/27/2001 12:26:57
David Querbach wrote:

> [ cross-build tools explained ]
>
> Only a single program, the game `phantasia', does not build under our system
> because it creates its own installer which wants to write directly to
> DESTDIR.  This shouldn't be hard to fix, but we haven't taken the time to do
> so.

I've just fixed this "problem".

> Does this seem like a reasonable approach?  If so, we could perhaps make a
> package of it for inclusion in pkgsrc.

Sounds like a great thing to have in pkgsrc.

Simon.
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