make search (Was Re: Perl5.8.7 ports)

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Fri Nov 3 07:05:43 UTC 2006


Craig Boston wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 11:20:32PM -0600, Craig Boston wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 10:16:39AM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
>>> cd /usr/ports/ && make search name=p5-Chart
>> blah blah blah
> 
> Figures, something bugs me for months, I finally break down and ask for
> advice, and find the solution less than a minute after sending the
> message...

Usually happens that way. :)

> Seems make search doesn't like the following line in my /etc/make.conf
> 
> PORTSDIR=/compile/ports
> 
> I thought PORTSDIR was required to be set if your ports were in a
> nonstandard location, if you wanted everything to work correctly?

I put just about everything in /usr/local (src, obj, ports, etc.) and 
found out long ago that putting symlinks in /usr/ is infinitely easier 
than trying to make it work with custom variables.

hth,

Doug

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