New /bin/sh based script to manage ports

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Sat Jan 14 03:39:50 PST 2006


Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 04:22:42PM +0200 I heard the voice of
> Vasil Dimov, and lo! it spake thus:
>> I would like to add that one should better use make -C / -V PORTSDIR
>> to avoid program's behavior depending on the current directory -
>> there may be accidental Makefile existing in there, causing
>> unexpected results.
> 
> There may be Makefile's in /, too.  At that point, you might as well
> `make -f/dev/null -V PORTSDIR`.

Excellent suggestion, thanks!

Doug

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