Moving sources (base/ports) from /usr

[Steve O'Hara-Smith]

On Fri, 15 May 2020 07:47:16 +0200
Ede Wolf <listac at nebelschwaden.de> wrote:

> Basically you are right. For makebuild[world|kernel] that is correct, it 
> is just that setting SOURCEDIR saves a question during mergemaster:
> 
> # mergemaster -Ui
> 
> *** /usr/src was not found.
>      Found Makefile.inc1 in the current directory.
>      Would you like to set SOURCEDIR to /clutter/src? [no and exit]

	Ah it's an environment variable used by mergemaster, you learn
something every day :)

> But if one decides to define it, it has to be in the shell environment 
> (export SOURCEDIR...), as src-env.conf or make.conf do not seem to work, 
> unless I've missed something.

	That makes sense it isn't being picked up by make.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org>