Avoiding "make clean" when changing pkg-plist and other files?

[Danilo Egêa Gondolfo]

make restage

On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 12:02 AM, Kirk Coombs <freebsd-ports at coombscloud.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I’m working on building my very first port (for the server component from
> https://www.urbackup.org/ <https://www.urbackup.org/>). Since this my
> first attempt at porting, I have ended up iterating a lot on the pkg-plist,
> new files in the ‘files’ directory, etc. as I try new things and explore
> the options in the Porter’s Handbook. To test any of these changes, I find
> that I need to do a ‘make clean’ from the port's directory in order for
> them to be used on the next ‘make build’--which obviously deletes any
> compiling work that had been done previously. Since this application takes
> a few minutes to compile, that can be a bit annoying and slow down the
> iterative debugging and learning process.
>
> Is there an easy way to avoid having to do a full ‘make clean’ when you
> change pkg-plist, etc.? Nothing is jumping out at me in the Porter’s
> Handbook, 'man port', or my web searches.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Kirk
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