Adding configure options when installing a port

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Wed Jun 16 10:41:35 PDT 2010


On 2010-6-17 03:31 , Scott Webster wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Richard Tobin <richard at inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>> I want to build a port with an extra configure option.  Specifically,
>> I want to build squid3 with the --enable-useragent-log option.
>>
>> After some searching around, it appeared that
>>
>>  port install squid3 configure.args-append=--enable-useragent-log
>>
>> ought to do it, but it seems to have no effect.  The argument is
>> not passed to configure.
>>
> 
> Would:
> 
> port install squid3 configure.args=--enable-useragent-log
> 
> work?  configure.args is a keyword with default of none.

You'll be replacing all the configure args that squid3 normally uses
with that one option, so no, not really.

- Josh


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