Date: Sun, 15 May 2022 23:08:31 -0700 From: "Pat Maddox" <pat@patmaddox.com> To: Chris <portmaster@bsdforge.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to override port Makefile to point to local directory? Message-ID: <E0751B45-4432-4B0B-AF70-21CC65302E37@patmaddox.com> In-Reply-To: <CA48E37F-67F0-40AD-9AE1-C8908E69E309@patmaddox.com> References: <C4E1018F-B37F-48E1-BDCB-FD9150DBDB6E@patmaddox.com> <24d0482cd89dd98aa75fc9c89aa00201@bsdforge.com> <CA48E37F-67F0-40AD-9AE1-C8908E69E309@patmaddox.com>
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On 15 May 2022, at 22:28, Pat Maddox wrote: > On 15 May 2022, at 20:49, Chris wrote: > >> On 2022-05-15 20:29, Pat Maddox wrote: >>> I am writing software that I would eventually like to install on = >>> FreeBSD. I'm >>> currently stuck trying to write a Makefile that will point to my = >>> local git dir, so >>> I can build and install it while I'm developing. All of the finished = >>> Makefiles >>> reference tar packages, which makes sense. But when I'm actively = >>> developing, I >>> don't want to commit the code, push it, have it built, update the = >>> makefile with >>> the commit, and make. >>> >>> Does anyone know of a way to override options to a port's Makefile = >>> to point to a >>> local directory on disk? I want to run "sudo make install" and "make = >>> package" from >>> my development directory, using the same Makefile that would be in = >>> the ports tree. >> You can perform make out of tree build/installs w/o issue. The ports = >> infrastructure >> will post a couple of warnings. But nothing to stop you from = >> development. I do it out >> of ~/DEV/<category>/port-im-developing all the time. >> >> HTH >> >> Chris >>> >>> Pat > > Cool, how do I do that? > > Here=E2=80=99s the Makefile in my project directory: = > https://gist.github.com/patmaddox/d5d8a0e0df656072749bf18f7f634ae9 > > When I run `make install`, it downloads the zip from GitHub. That = > makes sense, because that=E2=80=99s what it=E2=80=99s configured to do,= and I = > haven=E2=80=99t passed in any options to find the source elsewhere. > > I don=E2=80=99t know how to tell make not to fetch & extract, because I= = > already have the source locally. > > Pat Well I wrote a script that generates the folder structure and zip that = make expects, and moves it into place: = https://gist.github.com/patmaddox/d5d8a0e0df656072749bf18f7f634ae9#file-b= uild-sh I figure there=E2=80=99s gotta be some sort of `make SRCDIR=3D. install` = to = bypass fetch & extract, but this will do for now. Pat
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