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Date:      Fri, 12 Apr 2024 15:16:18 -0400
From:      Matthew Phillips <matthew@matthewphillips.info>
To:        Kurt Hackenberg <kh@panix.com>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Confused by what make package should do
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On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 03:06:16PM -0400, Kurt Hackenberg wrote:
> On 2024/04/12 13:28, Matthew Phillips wrote:
> 
> > It's trying to install the port itself. To /usr/local/bin specifically.
> > It seems like it's running `make install` on the ports Makefile.
> 
> From man ports(7): "package   Make a binary package for the port.  The port
> will be installed if it has not already been."
> 
> I think you want "make build", also documented in that man page.
> 
> 

Thank you Kurt. Does that mean that the porters handbook is wrong (says
it should be able to be run without root)? If so I can send a patch to
reword that. Should the advice to be to run `make build` instead then?



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