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On May 12, 2006, at 21:45, Mark Linimon wrote:

> On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 09:41:08PM -0700, Doug Hardie wrote:
>>> If you feel you could take responsibility for the port, then feel  
>>> free
>>> to submit a patch and offer to maintain it. In this case, you'll
>>> want to have a read of the Porter's Handbook first (easily found on
>>> Google).
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/ 
> index.html
>
> Also see "Contributing to the FreeBSD Ports Collection":
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing- 
> ports/index.html
>
>> Is this the right place to ask about the porting process?
>
> Yes.

Thanks.  The Contributing doc is very interesting.  The qpopper port  
throws up a window at the start of make that gives you options that  
become options to configure.  How is that done?  The latest versions  
of qpopper include a new option that is not currently provided.  I  
will need to add that new option.