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Date:      Mon, 29 Apr 2002 00:20:01 -0400
From:      "N. Thomas" <nthomas@cise.ufl.edu>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   building ports *outside* /usr
Message-ID:  <20020429042001.GA28503@cise.ufl.edu>

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I have regular-user access to a FreeBSD box and I would like to build some
software which is available through the ports tree. I downloaded the latest
ports sub-dir from the ftp site and try to build it in my home directory and
it doesn't work.

I can't even build the simplest package, so I'm suspecting it is a result of
doing this outside of /usr/ports.

What is the best way to do this, i.e. is there documentation available for
compiling packages outside /usr/ports?

thanks,
thomas

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N. Thomas
nthomas@cise.ufl.edu

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