From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 29 10:16:39 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED8C216A4B3 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 10:16:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (A17-250-248-97.apple.com [17.250.248.97]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4763143FFD for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 10:16:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin08-en2 [10.13.10.153]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id h8THGdGc029763; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 10:16:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mac.com (dpvc-68-161-244-25.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.244.25]) (authenticated bits=0)h8THGbQ4016555; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 10:16:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 13:16:36 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) To: freebsd@ryansandridge.com From: Charles Swiger In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Configuring imap-uw difficulties X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 17:16:40 -0000 On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 01:10 PM, Ryan Sandridge wrote: > My trouble is with changing some of the defaults. Unless I'm missing > something, all configuration is done through re-compiling rather than > a configuration file. Not my preference, but I can deal with that. > In particular I modify .../src/osdep/unix/env_unix.c to change the > mail subdirectory name. > > I thought after making this change, all I needed to do was '$ cd > /usr/ports/mail/imap-uw' then type '$ make' to rebuild it with the > changes. But it seems to think it is up to date (so doesn't > recompile). So perhaps my confusion is really due to lack of > understanding of the Ports system or of how to compile. You should try the following: cd /usr/ports/mail/imap-uw make clean make deinstall make patch [ ...change the env_unix.c file under the work subdir... ] make make install -- -Chuck