From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 28 21:20: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.cise.ufl.edu (beach.cise.ufl.edu [128.227.205.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64ADC37B404 for ; Sun, 28 Apr 2002 21:20:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shine.cise.ufl.edu (shine.cise.ufl.edu [128.227.205.227]) by mail.cise.ufl.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9349F69AD for ; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 00:20:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from nthomas@localhost) by shine.cise.ufl.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id AAA28558 for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 00:20:01 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 00:20:01 -0400 From: "N. Thomas" To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: building ports *outside* /usr Message-ID: <20020429042001.GA28503@cise.ufl.edu> Reply-To: questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have regular-user access to a FreeBSD box and I would like to build some software which is available through the ports tree. I downloaded the latest ports sub-dir from the ftp site and try to build it in my home directory and it doesn't work. I can't even build the simplest package, so I'm suspecting it is a result of doing this outside of /usr/ports. What is the best way to do this, i.e. is there documentation available for compiling packages outside /usr/ports? thanks, thomas -- N. Thomas nthomas@cise.ufl.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message