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Date:      Sat, 13 May 2006 00:09:09 -0700
From:      Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org>
To:        Beech Rintoul <beech@alaskaparadise.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: qpopper
Message-ID:  <C509CD5D-B27E-4276-8F6F-71F4E30E679B@lafn.org>
In-Reply-To: <200605122151.40926.beech@alaskaparadise.com>
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On May 12, 2006, at 22:51, Beech Rintoul wrote:

> On Friday 12 May 2006 21:14, Doug Hardie wrote:
>> 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.
>
> In the makefile you do something like this:
>
> OPTIONS=	NEW_OPTION "Build with New Option" off \
>
> Then put the statement below that section:
>
> .if defined(WITH_NEW_OPTION)
> CONFIGURE_ARGS+=	--new-option
> .endif
>
> You should also build the porttools (in the ports). And be sure to  
> check your
> files with portlint -A from the port directory.

thanks.  I'm off to give it a try.




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