Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 07:56:19 -0500 From: "Chad Kellerman" <sunckell@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing work directory of port for make Message-ID: <21bb29220801020456q67f50f3au3f634c3f900fc551@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080102000938.GA6601@owl.midgard.homeip.net> References: <21bb29220801011535y30dc05d7g5e37d6182eaa4ee5@mail.gmail.com> <20080102000938.GA6601@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
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Yeah, Freebsd documents much better than most Unix's....... if you know where to look. I read through the make man pages a hundred times thinking I missed something in there. Thanks for the help... Chad On Jan 1, 2008 7:09 PM, Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 06:35:43PM -0500, Chad Kellerman wrote: > > Hey guys, > > I installed Freebsd 7 on a Dell laptop I have. When I configured > the > > /usr partition I only gave it 10GB of space figuring that would be > plenty. > > Well now, since I don't see a pre-compiled version of OpenOffice for > i386, > > looks like I have to compile it myself. No big deal, except when I go > to > > compile it I run out of disk space on /usr. > > > > Is there a way I can tell make to create it's work directory > someplace > > else? I have more space in home, so if I make a /home/work, can I > compile > > OpenOffice to use the /home/work directory instead of > > /usr/port/editors/openoffice.org-2? > > > > I tried creating a link for the work directory but that appears to > be > > over ridden. > > > > Sure. Just set the WRKDIRPREFIX make variable in /etc/make.conf to point > to > the desired directory. > This (and much else) is documented in the ports(7) manpage. > > > -- > <Insert your favourite quote here.> > Erik Trulsson > ertr1013@student.uu.se >
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