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In-reply-to: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970524190726.3257A-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> (message from Tim Vanderhoek on Sat, 24 May 1997 19:24:47 -0400 (EDT))
Subject: Re: Porting (stupid) doubt
From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami)
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 * alwaysrunme::
 * 	cd some_source_dir

I'm afried this doesn't work. ;)  It will run a subshell, do a cd in
it, and return.  (This is why it's so hard to deal with subdirectories 
in Makefiles.)

You should probably write your own do-install script.  You can cd into 
whatever directory you want and run whatever target from there.  Feel
free to peek into the default do-install target in bsd.port.mk
(although there is no need to duplicate all the knobs and stuff, of
course).

Satoshi