How to build a BROKEN port?

[Da Rock]

On 12/30/10 12:27, RW wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:10:04 +1000
> Da Rock<freebsd-questions at herveybayaustralia.com.au>  wrote:
>
>    
>> On 12/30/10 11:09, Bruce Cran wrote:
>>      
>>> On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:49:25 +1000
>>> Da Rock<freebsd-questions at herveybayaustralia.com.au>   wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>>>> Pardon me for being the queer one to ask this- but how does one
>>>> force/override building a port marked as broken?
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> Edit the port's Makefile and comment-out the BROKEN line.
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> Oh, the irony! :) I considered doing that, but I thought there might
>> have been some magic incantation that got around this...
>>      
> Have you never read "The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe", any of the
> Harry Potters, or the Bible? There's always deeper magic that's held
> back until it's dramatically convenient.
>
>                        TRYBROKEN
>    
LOL :) I knew there had to be something! I just couldn't find it in the 
ocean of information on ports.

So...

make -DTRYBROKEN

Thanks guys. Now to crack the mongrel holding up my perfectly updated box...