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[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 28, 2007, at 14:15, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Apr 19, 2007, at 19:17, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> On Apr 18, 2007, at 23:10, Matt Eckhaus wrote:
>>
>>> On 19/04/2007, at 1:47 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Apr 18, 2007, at 21:50, Matt Eckhaus wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Is there any way to pass an extra GNU configure option to "port  
>>>>> install"?
>>>>>
>>>>> Specifically, I want it to configure php5 with "--with-mssql=/ 
>>>>> opt/local" to make it pick up freeTDS.
>>>>
>>>> So, we should add a freetds variant to the php5 port.
>>>
>>> Yes, I think that would be a good idea. I worked out how to  
>>> enable it and it works great.
>>
>> Is it something like this patch?
>
> Matt: Please let me know if adding this snippet to the php5  
> portfile and installing php5 with the +mssql variant works for you,  
> so that I can apply the patch to the portfile and commit it. Thanks.
>
> variant mssql {
> 	depends_lib-append \
> 		port:freetds
> 	configure.args-append \
> 		--with-mssql=${prefix}
> }

On second thought: I've just committed that change (in r24586). So  
you can wait 12 hours and try "sudo port install php5 +mssql" and  
hopefully it will work. If it does not, please let me know so I can  
fix it.