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Subject: Re: How to build a BROKEN port?
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On 12/30/10 11:09, Bruce Cran wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:49:25 +1000
> Da Rock<freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au>  wrote:
>
>    
>> Pardon me for being the queer one to ask this- but how does one
>> force/override building a port marked as broken?
>>      
> Edit the port's Makefile and comment-out the BROKEN line.
>
>    
Oh, the irony! :) I considered doing that, but I thought there might 
have been some magic incantation that got around this...

Cheers