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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 08:45:02 +0100 (MET)
From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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To: freebsd-ports@freefall.FreeBSD.org
Subject: installing a port without distfiles
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Following situation:

I compiled the XFree86 tree from ports, packed it into an x11.tar.gz
file and moved it to another machine where I want to do the install.

Now make is looking for the distfiles. Is there a way to tell the
ports build mechanism to skip this step without mangling the Makefile.

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de