On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 02:22:14PM +1300, Jacob Winther wrote: > I don't understand why tk is being picked up as a dependancy. I see in > bsd.port.mk it says read only, however i'm not sure if that is the > issue. If it does mean that i can't do this, how do i build a sub > package?
The simple answer is, you don't. That's not what SUBPACKAGES do. You can *install* a given subpackage. But in a MULTI_PACKAGES setup, you build them all. MULTI_PACKAGES are useful for binary package install... which you should do if you're in a hurry.