how to avoid recompiling applications?

Nikolas Britton nikolas.britton at gmail.com
Sun Jun 4 10:19:55 PDT 2006


On 6/4/06, Jonathan Horne <jhorne at dfwlp.com> wrote:
>
> so, could i theoretically use 'make reinstall' on a fresh system where the
> port had never been previously installed?


Yes... but what's the point?... when you can make your own packages.
instead of typing 'make install' type 'make package', this will spit
out a .tbz file you can use with pkg_add etc...
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/07/FreeBSD_Basics.html



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