From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 2 12:56:20 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B36B16A418 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2008 12:56:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sunckell@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.183]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C8CE13C448 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2008 12:56:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sunckell@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k17so9480676waf.3 for ; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 04:56:19 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=ucQMcFWJTeiUkPVA7kHHjnbePb0KTSd5WUken+a6sp4=; b=LEh3M80RaS7zrM/wDsLTvsCO6sDjFx/d75pf+sygEJjPk+dQw/70kb2WvffV4uo8xEPQ/Kn5ujOcol3xemp1WZrScTuijWfFMGoLqyN/HA1NXFbyL8iKSZ3or4Ccg9FXyBVg6t0zlXWg8Ri+BgL5yF4vJrF3jJqRDgMkTKxzdgg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=SLSY7m+rF6370TYrvFAvEcssjdw4+k3gQQ5izMxvBSvjB9gCVlQ2pe6gHLTKD3BIjWxKNCYK8ctB2IEYQ04jig13LHlOF+yp6H3NIQolX7ewPbjo2ckd5+SWIatjdC/yiZ3/yxjBBLSA17P+MfxUQbw50jmapZY7sTFW4ShEQOg= Received: by 10.114.88.1 with SMTP id l1mr14051712wab.79.1199278579732; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 04:56:19 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.56.9 with HTTP; Wed, 2 Jan 2008 04:56:19 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <21bb29220801020456q67f50f3au3f634c3f900fc551@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 07:56:19 -0500 From: "Chad Kellerman" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20080102000938.GA6601@owl.midgard.homeip.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <21bb29220801011535y30dc05d7g5e37d6182eaa4ee5@mail.gmail.com> <20080102000938.GA6601@owl.midgard.homeip.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Changing work directory of port for make X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:56:20 -0000 Yeah, Freebsd documents much better than most Unix's....... if you know where to look. I read through the make man pages a hundred times thinking I missed something in there. Thanks for the help... Chad On Jan 1, 2008 7:09 PM, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 06:35:43PM -0500, Chad Kellerman wrote: > > Hey guys, > > I installed Freebsd 7 on a Dell laptop I have. When I configured > the > > /usr partition I only gave it 10GB of space figuring that would be > plenty. > > Well now, since I don't see a pre-compiled version of OpenOffice for > i386, > > looks like I have to compile it myself. No big deal, except when I go > to > > compile it I run out of disk space on /usr. > > > > Is there a way I can tell make to create it's work directory > someplace > > else? I have more space in home, so if I make a /home/work, can I > compile > > OpenOffice to use the /home/work directory instead of > > /usr/port/editors/openoffice.org-2? > > > > I tried creating a link for the work directory but that appears to > be > > over ridden. > > > > Sure. Just set the WRKDIRPREFIX make variable in /etc/make.conf to point > to > the desired directory. > This (and much else) is documented in the ports(7) manpage. > > > -- > > Erik Trulsson > ertr1013@student.uu.se >