Defining and option in a port

[Arnold Greyling]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 11:53:26AM +0700, Olivier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I need to build a port (amanda-client) with an option that is not
> available in make config and is not provided as a default variable to
> pass to make all.
> 
> How can I do that?
> 
> More precicely, in Amanda, ./configure --help list the option
> --with-security-file, how can I define that whn building the port?
> 
> While I can probably interrupt the building process after make
> configure, execute a ./configure by hand and then resume the making,
> I am looking for a cleaner way to do it.
> 

You can edit the Makefile but then you have to remember to do it every time
there is an Update to the port

In Amanda's case  --with-security-file is already in the CONFIGURE_ARGS

i.e
CONFIGURE_ARGS= --libexecdir=${PREFIX}/libexec/amanda \
                --without-amlibexecdir \
                --with-amandahosts --with-fqdn \
                --with-dump-honor-nodump \
                --prefix=${PREFIX} \
                --disable-glibtest \
                --with-user=${USERS} --with-group=${AMANDA_GROUP} \
                --with-bsdtcp-security --with-bsdudp-security \
                --with-ssh-security \
                --disable-installperms --with-security-file=${ETCDIR}/amanda-security.conf

I don't know Amanda but I suppose you can change the security file
location in a config file later on.

Regards
Arnold

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