Re: Changing work directory of port for make
Yeah, Freebsd documents much better than most Unix's... if you know where to look. I read through the make man pages a hundred times thinking I missed something in there. Thanks for the help... Chad On Jan 1, 2008 7:09 PM, Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 06:35:43PM -0500, Chad Kellerman wrote: Hey guys, I installed Freebsd 7 on a Dell laptop I have. When I configured the /usr partition I only gave it 10GB of space figuring that would be plenty. Well now, since I don't see a pre-compiled version of OpenOffice for i386, looks like I have to compile it myself. No big deal, except when I go to compile it I run out of disk space on /usr. Is there a way I can tell make to create it's work directory someplace else? I have more space in home, so if I make a /home/work, can I compile OpenOffice to use the /home/work directory instead of /usr/port/editors/openoffice.org-2? I tried creating a link for the work directory but that appears to be over ridden. Sure. Just set the WRKDIRPREFIX make variable in /etc/make.conf to point to the desired directory. This (and much else) is documented in the ports(7) manpage. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Changing work directory of port for make
Hey guys, I installed Freebsd 7 on a Dell laptop I have. When I configured the /usr partition I only gave it 10GB of space figuring that would be plenty. Well now, since I don't see a pre-compiled version of OpenOffice for i386, looks like I have to compile it myself. No big deal, except when I go to compile it I run out of disk space on /usr. Is there a way I can tell make to create it's work directory someplace else? I have more space in home, so if I make a /home/work, can I compile OpenOffice to use the /home/work directory instead of /usr/port/editors/openoffice.org-2? I tried creating a link for the work directory but that appears to be over ridden. Thanks for the help, Chad ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Changing work directory of port for make
On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 06:35:43PM -0500, Chad Kellerman wrote: Hey guys, I installed Freebsd 7 on a Dell laptop I have. When I configured the /usr partition I only gave it 10GB of space figuring that would be plenty. Well now, since I don't see a pre-compiled version of OpenOffice for i386, looks like I have to compile it myself. No big deal, except when I go to compile it I run out of disk space on /usr. Is there a way I can tell make to create it's work directory someplace else? I have more space in home, so if I make a /home/work, can I compile OpenOffice to use the /home/work directory instead of /usr/port/editors/openoffice.org-2? I tried creating a link for the work directory but that appears to be over ridden. Sure. Just set the WRKDIRPREFIX make variable in /etc/make.conf to point to the desired directory. This (and much else) is documented in the ports(7) manpage. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
