> On 2018-03-07, at 20:40, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote: > (...) >> but it fails. it seems that build.args doesn not overwrite PREIX in Makefile. > > It does, but it turns out the makefile doesn't use PREFIX during the build > phase. It only seems to use it during the destroot phase. So use: > > destroot.args PREFIX=${prefix} > > No need to put it inside a pre-destroot block.
worked ok. thanks, pdv.