How to make a port not build

Martin Karlsson mk-freebsd at bredband.net
Sun Jul 6 15:04:08 PDT 2003


Hi,

* Derrick Ryalls <ryallsd at datasphereweb.com> [2003-07-06 14.54 -0700]:
> Normally when building a port, I just type make install clean and let it
> run.  However, I need to modify a source file before the build starts.
> Since many patches are included in the port, I am looking for it to stop
> after everything is downloaded extracted and patched, just before the
> build starts.  Is there an elegant way of doing this besides hitting
> Cntrl-C when it starts to build?

man ports(7), look for the word TARGETS. In this case 'make patch' 
(without the ''), instead of 'make install clean' would do what you 
want.

HTH,
-- 
Martin Karlsson


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