Modify port source before installing

[Rainer Müller]

On 2013-01-08 17:14, Jason Mansour wrote:
> Now, when I try this, I can run port configure and port build myself
> successfully. But whenever I try port install, macports insists on
> re-extracting the files, overwriting my changes. This seems to be 'new'
> behavior. So my question is, how do I install a port with changes to the
> source?

'port install' will use pre-compiled binary archives if available. To
avoid that, use 'port -s install' which will always build from source.

Rainer