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To: asami@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= 
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Subject: Re: ports/Makefile SUBDIR=bla..bla to SUBDIR?=bla..bla 
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Date: Mon, 29 May 1995 23:41:34 +0200
From: Julian Howard Stacey <jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>
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Satoshi

> Setting SUBDIR in your environment is not the correct way to do this,
> among other things it will screw up some ports that include some other 
> bsd.*.mk (eispack? or something) 'cause they use the SUBDIR too.

It also causes problems with some src dirs too, I had to disable it.
( I recall seeing something like .../archives/archives/archive ... cannot fork )

> For skipping individual ports or subtrees, you can use DUDS, as in
> make package DUDS="japanese russian games audio"

Great, Thanks, 
I've finally given up on trying to regularly compile all ports,
I've run out of disc, no matter how many sym links i throw in to odd 
spaces on other drives.

Julian