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Date:      Sun, 25 Jan 2004 11:21:37 +0100
From:      Nils Vogels <nivo+sender+3564cf@yuckfou.org>
To:        freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: different src dirctory question
Message-ID:  <401398B1.1020501@yuckfou.org>
In-Reply-To: <1075022577.4709.93.camel@papa.wdm.com>

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W.D.McKinney wrote:

>I am moving from Linux to FreeBSD on our servers. I would like to
>install MySQL on on a 4.9 system from ports. How do I tell the make
>commnad to put the src in /usr/local/src ? Something like :
>
># make --srcdest=/usr/local/src 
>  
>
Set the DISTDIR to another directory.

It defaults to ${PORTSDIR}/distfiles, but can be set to what you want.

In your case ..

# make DISTDIR=/usr/local/src

should do the trick.

HTH & HAND,

Nils.

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