Re: _writes_to_HOME

[Nikolay Sturm <sturm_(_at_)_sec_(_dot_)_informatik_(_dot_)_tu-darmstadt_(_dot_)_de>]

* Flinn Mueller [2003-09-09]:
> I googled for _writes_to_HOME and found four archived messages, but
> nothing really useful.  Can anyone tell me anything about this
> warning.

In bsd.port.mk HOME is set to this value and added to MAKE_ENV, so
whenever a port tries to write to $HOME, it tries writing to
foobar_writes_to_HOME which does not exist and results in the warning
printed.

This is normally a sign for you to apply a patch to configure, taking
care of this test. Ports should neither write to HOME nor to SYSCONFDIR
or PREFIX.

Nikolay

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