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From: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
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Subject: incomplete docs info
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>Number:         23029
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       incomplete docs info
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Nov 22 14:10:00 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:    Thu Nov 23 11:08:43 GMT 2000
>Last-Modified:  Thu Nov 23 11:09:04 GMT 2000
>Originator:     Michael Lucas
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386
>Organization:
GLTG
>Environment:

current docs tree

>Description:

description of PREFIX in ports section of handbook does not describe bugs.

>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
	
*** chapter.sgml-dist	Wed Jun 14 16:30:37 2000
--- chapter.sgml	Wed Nov 22 08:36:30 2000
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*** 594,599 ****
--- 594,606 ----
  	  <para>will combine the two (it is too long to write fully on
  	    the page, but it should give you the general idea).</para>
  
+ 	  <para>Some ports that use imake (a part of the X Windows
+ 	  System) don't work well with PREFIX, and will insist on
+ 	  installing under /usr/X11R6.  Similarly, some Perl ports
+ 	  ignore PREFIX and install in the Perl tree.  Making these
+ 	  ports respect PREFIX is a difficult or impossible
+ 	  job.</para>
+ 
  	  <para>If you do not fancy typing all that in every time you
  	    install a port, it is a good idea to put these variables
  	    into your environment.  Read the man page for your shell for

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: ben 
State-Changed-When: Thu Nov 23 11:08:43 GMT 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
Duplicate of 23022. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=23029 
>Unformatted:
