wrkdirprefix default?

[Andrew P.]

On 10/30/05, Anthony M. Agelastos <iqgrande at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Sometime back, I posted a message mentioning that I planned on
> installing OpenOffice once it reached 2.0 status on my FreeBSD
> machine using a nonstandard wrkdirprefix path (original email is
> shown via the below link).
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=184696+187981+/usr/local/
> www/db/text/2005/freebsd-questions/20050918.freebsd-questions
>
> One reply was that I can use
>
> env WRKDIRPREFIX=/myotherlocation make install
>
> This is fine for installing it, but I was wondering was there a good
> way of modifying WRKDIRPREFIX to always point to this location only
> for OpenOffice.org, that way I can use portupgrade in the future and
> not have to worry about it? I am assuming the best way of dealing
> with this is with the file /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf.  assume that
> I could put it inside of the MAKE_ARGS section. What is the most
> optimal way of modifying this file for what I have mentioned above? I
> have read the pkgtools.conf and ports manpages (and am still slightly
> confused) and am running FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE.
>
> If the only way to do this is by modifying the variable on the whole
> so everything is built elsewhere, I suppose that is alright as well.
> If this is the only way, what is the preferred way of handling this?
> Thank you all for your assistance.
>
> -Anthony
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Yes, pkgtools.conf is one of the best ways to do this,
 MAKE_ARGS = {
        'openoffice*' => 'WRKDIRPREFIX=/mydir',
 }

You can also read make manpage and test
.CURDIR in /etc/make.conf, but that's not so neat.