How to indicate source directory in other than /usr/src?

[uki]

Don't know if that will help in Your case, but I just softlink my
/usr/local/src-stable to /usr/src - never had any issues.

Cheers,
Łukasz Gruner


2012/5/29 Thomas Mueller <mueller23 at insightbb.com>:
> How does one indicate a system source directory location when in other than /usr/src?
>
> That could be necessary when in another directory, for instance running ndiscvt.
>
> Or one could be building FreeBSD for a USB stick and want to do the heavy work on a hard drive; I could also want to build and install ports on the USB stick but do the heavy work on the hard drive.
>
> I couldn't find a variable named SRCDIR anywhere in the documentation, in contrast to PORTSDIR, which I did find.
>
> I may also want to build 10-CURRENT from 9-STABLE system without giving up the 9-STABLE source tree; I would need both source trees, but then after the first successful build of 10-CURRENT, I could use that to build updated versions.
>
>
> Tom
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