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Subject: Re: Making ports in alternative areas
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ross wrote:

>> This is way too much work.  We have environment variable to solve the
>> OP's problem.  See make.conf(5) and ports(7).
>>
>> Kris
> 
> 
> Thanks for the solution. There is still the problem being that I, being  
> the beginner I am, don't know how to change the enviroment variable for  
> WRKDIRPREFIX. Think I could get a little more guidence?

In /etc/make.conf:
WRKDIRPREFIX=/someplace/workdir

You can put it there by doing as root:

# echo WRKDIRPREFIX=/someplace/workdir >> /etc/make.conf

and check it is there with

# tail /etc/make.conf

Chris