Re: qpopper / portinstall / custom install

From: Lowell Gilbert (lgusenet_at_be-well.ilk.org)
Date: 12/01/03 

Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 16:42:04 GMT

Justin England <jengland@enetis.net> writes:

> By default, the mail/qpopper/Makefile contains the configure options
> --enable-apop, which I have no need for, nor do I want it configured that
> way. I have added the information in my pkgtools.conf file to override
> that option and add the configure options I want, and that works without
> problems. The problem I am having, is that during the "install phase", it
> still thinks that it needs to install the popauth file, which because of
> my configure options, is not built, and therefore, the portinstall fails.
> Is there any way I can configure my pkgtools.conf so that it will override
> the install options and not try to install the apop file? If not, what is
> the best way to handle this, or, since I have no intentions to use this
> feature, can I safely let it build /install it without any adverse
> affects? I would like to set it up in such a way, that if/when I use the
> portupgrade program, I will not have to worry about hacking the makefile
> to suit my needs, but instead, just use the pkgtools.conf file to suit my
> needs.

The port isn't designed to support building without apop. This
wouldn't be terribly hard to fix; the port maintainer might even
do it for you if you ask nicely. I don't see any easy way around
it other than modifying the makefile.

I don't see any real harm to having apop included even if you're
not using it, but that doesn't guarantee that a reason won't pop
up next week.

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