From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 21 14:49: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BE6B037B407 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:49:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 47386 invoked by uid 100); 21 Jun 2001 21:49:04 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15154.27600.242086.673003@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 16:49:04 -0500 To: Andrew Boothman Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports Distfiles In-Reply-To: <40396648@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrew Boothman types: > Hi! > > I'm trying to install a port on a machine where I don't have access to the > root account. I know I can do > > make WRKDIRPREFIX=~/ports/tmp PREFIX=~/ports > > to have the port built in my home directory, but how do I tell make to look > somewhere other than /usr/ports/distfiles for the tar.gz file that contains > the port? Use DISTDIR: make WRKDIRPREFIX=~/ports/tmp PREFIX=~/ports DISTDIR=~/ports/distfiles This is documented in the make.conf man page. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message