different src dirctory question

[Nils Vogels]

W.D.McKinney wrote:

>I am moving from Linux to FreeBSD on our servers. I would like to
>install MySQL on on a 4.9 system from ports. How do I tell the make
>commnad to put the src in /usr/local/src ? Something like :
>
># make --srcdest=/usr/local/src 
>  
>
Set the DISTDIR to another directory.

It defaults to ${PORTSDIR}/distfiles, but can be set to what you want.

In your case ..

# make DISTDIR=/usr/local/src

should do the trick.

HTH & HAND,

Nils.

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