GNU cp location
Lowell Gilbert
freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Wed May 18 15:45:25 PDT 2005
Tony Shadwick <tshadwick at goinet.com> writes:
> Yeah, I've done this recently, it works beautifully, albeit a bit time
> consuming. I wish I could throw out there a big sign that says more
> or less:
>
> "cvsup your ports tree, install using portinstall"
>
> Rather than people constantly trying to build manually from
> tarball. :\
Well, the ports system doesn't seem to have the precise version that
the OP was building...
> That and teach people to put their build flags in
> /etc/make.conf so that portupgrade 'remembers' how you built it last
> time, like so:
>
> .if ${.CURDIR:M*/mail/cclient}
> WITH_SSL_AND_PLAINTEXT=yes
> .endif
>
> .if ${.CURDIR:M*/mail/imap-uw}
> WITH_SSL_AND_PLAINTEXT=yes
> .endif
>
> The tricks you learn over time though. :)
For most portupgrade users, I think I prefer to recommend configuring
the pkgtools.conf file for that purpose. But then it *only* works if
you're having portupgrade do the build.
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