/opt/local on non-boot partition

[Lawrence Velázquez]

On Sep 28, 2013, at 6:55 PM, Eric Gallager <egall at gwmail.gwu.edu> wrote:

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

Only if MacPorts thinks that it's installed to /opt/local. If you build MacPorts from source with --prefix, as Ryan suggested, it should work regardless of whether you make a symlink later.

This could be useful if you don't want to put /Volumes/foo/bar/baz/opt/local/bin in $PATH, for instance.

vq