Re: How to override port Makefile to point to local directory?

[Chris]

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

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