On 15 May 2022, at 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.
Pat
For anyone else interested in this, I finally came up with a really
clean solution:
make WRKSRC=$(pwd) USE_GITHUB=no DISTFILES="" -C port
It assumes a really simple USE_GITHUB Makefile (e.g. below).
Here’s the example repo:
https://github.com/patmaddox/simple_port_example
Pat
PORTNAME= simple-port-example
CATEGORIES= devel
DISTVERSION= 1.0.0
DISTVERSIONPREFIX= v
MAINTAINER= [email protected]
USE_GITHUB= yes
GH_ACCOUNT= patmaddox
GH_PROJECT= simple_port_example
.include <bsd.port.mk>
