Subject: Re: bsd.pkg.mk proposal 1: recrsive make
To: Christoph Badura <bad@ora.de>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 05/21/1999 13:15:13
On Fri, 21 May 1999, Christoph Badura wrote:

: >- The following extra settings will be added to CONFIGURE_ENV:
: >    PERL_PATH="${LOCALBASE}/bin/perl"
: >    PATH_PERL="${LOCALBASE}/bin/perl"
: >  (This list will likely be expanded before the final draft.)
: 
: Is this really that common?  I've seen at least two more methods, one using
: --with-perl=/directory/where/perl/binary/is/in .
: 
: What about hardwiring PATH to "/{,usr,LOCALBASE,X11BASE}/{,s}bin"?

Definitely a possibility.  At the current time, PATH places LOCALBASE/bin
and X11BASE/bin at the *end* of the path; that probably should be change to
the *beginning*.  I'll add that to proposal 6 (general cleanup), instead.

Thanks!

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