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Subject: Re: Using a different WORK folder for ports
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On April 6, 2003 03:59 pm, Bigbrother wrote:
> Hi people,
>
> I want to NFS export read-only the ports tree /usr/ports to different
> fbsd machines. When the clients try to build a port, the compilation
> fails because they cannot write to the ports tree.
>
> Is there any hack that it could redirect the ./work folder of every port
> to be a local rw disk,
> like /usr/tmp/work ? Thus, patches and compilation would be redirected
> to a local hard disk. (This would increase also the compilation
> performance)

in your /etc/make.conf you can use:
WRKDIRPREFIX=   /usr/tmp/work

>
> Thankx in advance!!
>

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