I didn't knew anything about the mystuff directory. Anyway I tried it. mkdir /usr/ports/mystuff mkdir /usr/ports/mystuff/x11 cp -r /usr/ports/x11/dmenu /usr/ports/mystuff/x11/dmenu chown -R user:wsrc /usr/ports/mystuff cd /usr/ports/mystuff/x11/dmenu make install
And it was successfull, so you should check the file permissions in and of mystuff dir. If build was successfull in /usr/ports/x11/dmenu, then permission could be skewed in mystuff.("local user":"wsrc") If no conflict in that, I think you could have messed up your /usr/ports/x11/dmenu dir before copying it, did you edit it?