/opt/local on non-boot partition

[Eric Gallager]

Beware, though, that if you make /opt/local a symlink, you'll run into
https://trac.macports.org/ticket/39850



On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>wrote:

>
> On Sep 28, 2013, at 10:11, Bradley Giesbrecht <pixilla at macports.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Is there MP documentation of a supported method of having /opt on a
> non-boot partition?
>
>
> I don't think so… certainly you can install MacPorts on a non-default
> partition; you just compile from source and set
> --prefix=/Volumes/Whatever/opt/local for example. If you wanted to still be
> able to refer to it as /opt/local, you could make /opt/local a symlink to
> /Volumes/Whatever/opt/local and that should work in most cases.
>
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