Re: different src dirctory question

From: Nils Vogels (nivo+sender+3564cf_at_yuckfou.org)
Date: 01/25/04

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    Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 11:21:37 +0100
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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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