building postgres 8.2

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 29, 2007, at 18:13, Rick Gigger wrote:

> Also I tried building postgres 8.2.5 (same as macports is using  
> http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/trunk/dports/databases/ 
> postgresql82/Portfile) from source and it built fine.  So I think  
> that possibly it's one of the contrib modules that is causing the  
> problem.  If I modify the port file how to I tell the port command  
> to use the modified file?

This should explain what you need to know; if it does not, please let  
us know. The new guide is still in the process of being written and I  
haven't actually read it yet.

http://geeklair.net/new_macports_guide/#development.local-repositories