Specifying an install directory

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Sun Feb 10 21:03:37 PST 2008


On Feb 10, 2008, at 22:39, Eric Soli wrote:

> I am attempting to install pear-base into /usr/bin
> instead of /opt/local/bin. My best understanding from
> the man page is that I should use:
>
> bash$ sudo port -D /usr/bin install pear-base
>
> but it still ends up in /opt/local. Is there a way
> plant this pear tree next to /usr/bin/php?
>
> Running Leopard on Intel.

MacPorts is designed to install its software into ${prefix} which by  
default is /opt/local. A user can't make a port install its software  
into a different location.

For the case of PEAR, you may want to install it yourself, by hand,  
in whatever location you want it, rather than use the port.



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