Florian Stoehr wrote:
> I need to run pkgsrc build from various machines and architectures in 
> parallel.
> 
> So on every machine, i added to /etc/mk.conf:
> 
> WRKDIR=/var/temp

You want WRKOBJDIR=/var/temp and OBJHOSTNAME=yes, so every machine
gets a working directory of its own. See line 522ff in bsd.prefs.mk.

> How to force it not to remove the top-level directory (or make things 
> othervise work) ?

WRKDIR is set automatically using WRKOBJDIR (among others) and will
always be deleted by "make clean".

ciao
     Klaus