From cf5529ab621a53ae08236f2a3197ffab847792c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marc Espie <espie@cvs.openbsd.org>
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 09:58:36 +0000
Subject: document STARTDIR

---
 share/man/man7/ports.7 | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/share/man/man7/ports.7 b/share/man/man7/ports.7
index ff25b195c33..cd9eab4468d 100644
--- a/share/man/man7/ports.7
+++ b/share/man/man7/ports.7
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 .\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
 .\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.\" $OpenBSD: ports.7,v 1.67 2006/12/23 15:30:28 espie Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ports.7,v 1.68 2007/04/07 09:58:35 espie Exp $
 .\" $FreeBSD: ports.7,v 1.7 1998/06/23 04:38:50 hoek Exp $
 .\"
 .Dd January 25, 1998
@@ -152,6 +152,13 @@ see
 .Xr packages-specs 7
 .Pc .
 .Pp
+The variable
+.Ev STARTDIR
+can hold the path to a starting directory.
+The recursion will skip all directories up to that package path.
+This can be used to resume a full build at some specific point without having
+to go through thousands of directories first.
+.Pp
 In case of failure in a subdirectory, the shell fragment held in
 .Ev REPORT_PROBLEM
 is executed.
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