php ldap_sasl_bind not available for FreeBSD?

[George Mamalakis]

Dear all,

We are writing a php script that has to use sasl/gssapi authentication 
with openldap. When I saw the available options of lang/php5, 
lang/php5-extensions and net/php5-ldap I realized that there was no 
option regarding sasl-ldap support. When I used the function 
ldap_sasl_bind() to connect to my openldap server, php returned the 
error: "Call to undefined function ldap_sasl_bind()". In order to build 
php with ldap_sasl support, I had to do what 
http://php.net/manual/en/function.ldap-sasl-bind.php suggested, which 
was to alter /usr/ports/lang/php5/Makefile to include /--with-ldap-sasl 
/in its//configuration options. After that everything worked as 
expected, but I suspect that there should be a FreeBSD-ports-centric way 
to achieve this.

Should I send a PR to the port maintainer, or is there something I am 
missing regarding this issue?

Thank you all for your time in advance,

mamalos
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