make -C /usr/ports ... doesn't work

Ruslan Ermilov ru at freebsd.org
Thu Jun 17 06:58:21 GMT 2004


On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 02:46:15AM +0200, Bj?rn K?nig wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> since a few days commands like
> 
>       make -C /usr/ports search name="foo"
> 
> don't work anymore in -STABLE. Changing first into directory
> 
>       cd /usr/ports && make search name="foo"
> 
> still works fine. Anybody knows help?
> 
It never worked correctly in 4.x.  I've fixed it some time ago
in 5.x, but do not have MFC plans for this in 4.x.  See

	http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?47149

for details.  In particular, the bug is that make(1) doesn't
set .CURDIR and .OBJDIR properly when given -C.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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