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
Thanks for the lightening fast response. This compiled as expected, although my source change did not appear to take effect. After changing the mailsubdir from NIL to "mail", I'm still dumped in my home directory, not mail subdirectory. This is probably an issue I should take up with the imap-uw mailing list.
I do have a followup question to your response. Doing 'make clean' removes everything in the work subdir, right? So if I follow all those steps every time I want to make a change, won't I need to make all previous changes again? Is there a better way?
Thanks, Ryan
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