make flag to build on a separate disk

Thomas Sparrevohn Thomas.Sparrevohn at btinternet.com
Sun Sep 11 15:34:23 PDT 2005


On Sunday 11 September 2005 21:19, Anthony M. Agelastos wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Once OpenOffice.org 2.0 is released, I plan on building it from Ports
> on my machine (currently 5.4-STABLE... will be 6.0-STABLE after 6.0's
> release). There may be one problem, though, which is my /usr/
> partition only has about 2.4 GB free space available. If memory
> serves, OOo takes up more than that to build. I do have another hard
> drive (mounted at /diskad3) that has over 20 GB of free space
> available. Is it possible to have it use /diskad3 for its temporary
> build directory? I checked the FAQ, Google, and the Handbook and
> didn't find anything. I am reading the make manpage and it
> mentions .OBJDIR, but I am not sure how to use it or if that is
> indeed what I am looking for. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank
> you for your assistance.
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You can use the 

env WRKDIRPREFIX=/myotherlocation make install 

It will store the ports "work" directory where ever WRKDIRPREFIX points to

see "man ports" for additional information


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