qpopper

[Beech Rintoul]

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.

Beech
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