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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.netspace.net.au!not-for-mail From: ahill@stang.netspace.net.au (Anthony Hill) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: correct use of ports ? Date: 11 Jul 1995 09:12:27 +1000 Organization: NetSpace Online Systems Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3tsc4r$5g5@stang.netspace.net.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: netspace.net.au Summary: correct use of ports ? Keywords: ports Howdy, Whilst the ports are a great idea, simple to use, and just plain cool - I have a few things I'd like to clear up. 1st, what do you do with a port after you have compiled it - /usr/ports/whatever/work/whatever/bin seems to be a pretty strange place to keep binaries, and I am never quite sure which files I should move from the ports tree into more "normal" working space, eg. usr/bin, which ones I should keep where they are and which files I should delete Is this part of the installation in some way automated - is there usually a file with the ports which suggests what should be put where ? 2nd, what does "make clean" do ? Does it just kill the sources and intermidiate compilation files, the whole tree - what ? Sometimes instead of moving binaries from the ports tree - i just make symbolic links in /usr/bin to point to the relavent binaries in the port tree - what will make clean do to these links ? Thanks Anthony