Re: How to override port Makefile to point to local directory?
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Date: Mon, 16 May 2022 06:08:31 UTC
On 15 May 2022, at 22:28, Pat Maddox wrote: > On 15 May 2022, at 20:49, Chris wrote: > >> On 2022-05-15 20:29, Pat Maddox wrote: >>> I am writing software that I would eventually like to install on >>> FreeBSD. I'm >>> currently stuck trying to write a Makefile that will point to my >>> local git dir, so >>> I can build and install it while I'm developing. All of the finished >>> Makefiles >>> reference tar packages, which makes sense. But when I'm actively >>> developing, I >>> don't want to commit the code, push it, have it built, update the >>> makefile with >>> the commit, and make. >>> >>> Does anyone know of a way to override options to a port's Makefile >>> to point to a >>> local directory on disk? I want to run "sudo make install" and "make >>> package" from >>> my development directory, using the same Makefile that would be in >>> the ports tree. >> You can perform make out of tree build/installs w/o issue. The ports >> infrastructure >> will post a couple of warnings. But nothing to stop you from >> development. I do it out >> of ~/DEV/<category>/port-im-developing all the time. >> >> HTH >> >> Chris >>> >>> Pat > > Cool, how do I do that? > > Here’s the Makefile in my project directory: > https://gist.github.com/patmaddox/d5d8a0e0df656072749bf18f7f634ae9 > > When I run `make install`, it downloads the zip from GitHub. That > makes sense, because that’s what it’s configured to do, and I > haven’t passed in any options to find the source elsewhere. > > I don’t know how to tell make not to fetch & extract, because I > already have the source locally. > > Pat Well I wrote a script that generates the folder structure and zip that make expects, and moves it into place: https://gist.github.com/patmaddox/d5d8a0e0df656072749bf18f7f634ae9#file-build-sh I figure there’s gotta be some sort of `make SRCDIR=. install` to bypass fetch & extract, but this will do for now. Pat