Configuring imap-uw difficulties

[Charles Swiger]

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