Differences when using `make` V `port test`

[Alexander Moisseev]

On 23.09.2016 15:45, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
>
> I don't really know what it does, but to test a port, it seems
> overcomplicated, everything is already done by the framework.
>
> Best would be for you to put:
>
> DEVELOPER=yes
>
> in /etc/make.conf
>
> and simply run "make" as a regular user, it will check everything that
> can be.
>
I believe the most important difference is "port test" does real install (into a temp dir) and deinstall, "make" doesn't (merely staging).