installing into alternate directory?

[Adam Weinberger]

> On 13 Oct, 2017, at 16:41, Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 04:29:39PM -0600, Adam Weinberger wrote:
>>> On 13 Oct, 2017, at 16:08, Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I suspect that this is documented someplace.
>>> In the old days, one coudl install ports in
>>> an directory hierarchy other than /usr/local
>>> by setting DESTDIR.  This is/was handy in 
>>> testing a new port, or in particular, an upgrade
>>> of an abandoned port.
>>> 
>>> % cd /usr/ports/math/octave42
>>> % make
>>> % setenv DESTDIR /usr/local/octave42
>>> % make install
>>> ===>  Creating some important subdirectories
>>> ===> /tmp subdirectory has been successfully created
>>> ===> /dev subdirectory has been successfully created
>>> ===>  Starting chrooted make in /usr/local/octave42...
>>> chroot: /bin/sh: No such file or directory
>>> ===>  Chrooted make in /usr/local/octave42 failed
>>> ===>  Cleaning up...
>>> *** Error code 1
>>> 
>>> What?
>> 
>> PREFIX
>> 
> 
> Does not work.  'make install' will then look for dependencies
> under PREFIX.  It won't find the dependencies, and then dutifully
> populate PREFIX with those dependencies.  I want 'make install' to
> install only the files that will be installed from the math/octave42
> port.  No dependencies.  The dependencies are available iin /usr/local.

Hrmmn. I thought that dependencies were searched in LOCALBASE, not PREFIX.

# Adam


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