From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 25 02:21:43 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1103F16A4CE for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 02:21:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from imhotep.yuckfou.org (cust.89.117.adsl.cistron.nl [195.64.89.117]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6607643D2D for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 02:21:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nivo+sender+3564cf@yuckfou.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imhotep.yuckfou.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 259D230E for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 11:25:23 +0100 (CET) Received: from imhotep.yuckfou.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (imhotep.yuckfou.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 22514-05 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 11:25:22 +0100 (CET) Received: by imhotep.yuckfou.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E4C1130A; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 11:25:22 +0100 (CET) Received: from yuckfou.org (turbata-xp [192.168.2.236]) by localhost.yuckfou.org (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 11:25:21 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <401398B1.1020501@yuckfou.org> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 11:21:37 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030912 Thunderbird/0.3a X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org References: <1075022577.4709.93.camel@papa.wdm.com> In-Reply-To: <1075022577.4709.93.camel@papa.wdm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Nils Vogels X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.0 (Cannonade) X-TMDA-Fingerprint: pMEAFY+psIavQTX8QEgsNuJQUeI X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at yuckfou.org Subject: Re: different src dirctory question X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Nils Vogels List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 10:21:43 -0000 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. -- Simple guidelines to happiness: Work like you don't need the money, love like your heart has never been broken and dance like no one can see you.