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Date:      Fri, 16 Jun 2000 11:17:08 -0500
From:      "Jacques A . Vidrine" <n@nectar.com>
To:        Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe <mitayai@bricsnet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ports /work/ directory.
Message-ID:  <20000616111708.H34907@bone.nectar.com>
In-Reply-To: <NDBBIBPPALJNCAALNFFAGEEIEBAA.mitayai@bricsnet.com>; from mitayai@bricsnet.com on Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 11:59:18AM -0400
References:  <NDBBIBPPALJNCAALNFFAGEEIEBAA.mitayai@bricsnet.com>

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On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 11:59:18AM -0400, Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe wrote:
> Is there any plans to move the ports' working directory out of the
> /usr/ports/ tree?

   cd /usr/ports/nifty/port && env WRKDIRPREFIX=/foo make 

will set WRKDIR to be /foo/usr/ports/nifty/port/work.

You can set this in /etc/make.conf if you like.  I have:

   .if exists(/pbuild)
   WRKDIRPREFIX=/pbuild
   .endif

for example.

-- 
Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / nectar@FreeBSD.org


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