On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 04:51:49PM -0700, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) wrote: > We have a number of in-house utilities that we push out as packages. > Right now these are built using the standard make framework, with > a bunch of hand-crafted glue to build and sign the packages before > pushing them to our internal distribution server. > > I would really like to take advantage of <bsd.port.mk> to automate > as much of the packing process as I can. The problem is that port > builds assume you're obtaining the program source from external > distribution files, whereas I want to build right out of the port > directory itself, i.e. have the program source live under > /usr/ports/foo/bar/src/. > > Has anyone come up with an idiomatic solution to this that doesn't > involve surgery on /usr/share/mk/*port*?
have DISTFILES be empty, put your sources under FILESDIR and a bit of glue to ln/mv them into WRKDIR since you got to have a WRKDIR for ports.
