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From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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To: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: MH: inc can't connect to POP mailbox 
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On Sat, 27 Apr 1996, Gary Palmer wrote:

> > I fixed that.  Modify patch-aa and uncomment the pop sections.
> 
> Infact, since sometime in February, it's been the default to INCLUDE
> POP support:
> 
> RCS file: /home/ncvs/ports/mail/mh/patches/patch-aa,v
> Working file: patch-aa
> [blah blah]
> revision 1.3
> date: 1996/02/23 01:25:08;  author: pst;  state: Exp;  lines: +8 -8

Well, that would explain a lot.  I'm using the 2.1-R port, which is 
apparently behind the times:

# @(#)$Id: patch-aa,v 1.2 1995/08/15 20:08:02 gpalmer Exp $

I'll pull the ports-current version and give it another spin.  

> > Is there any way to build a port and have it stop just before it starts 
> > building it?  ie "make patch"?
> 
> Depends where you want it to stop...
> 
> The steps are (if I remember) fetch, checksum, extract, patch,
> configure, build, install. All are available targets for make.

Thanks.  There have been times when I've wanted to change the default 
setups without having to ^C the process, and I didn't feel like putting 
up with compiling it myself.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major