New /bin/sh based script to manage ports

Matthew D. Fuller fullermd at over-yonder.net
Tue Jan 10 17:16:44 PST 2006


On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 04:22:42PM +0200 I heard the voice of
Vasil Dimov, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> I would like to add that one should better use make -C / -V PORTSDIR
> to avoid program's behavior depending on the current directory -
> there may be accidental Makefile existing in there, causing
> unexpected results.

There may be Makefile's in /, too.  At that point, you might as well
`make -f/dev/null -V PORTSDIR`.


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