Building Pine with PASSFILE option

[Rakhesh Sasidharan]

Scot Hetzel wrote:

>> I used the "+=" coz I got the got the impression that adds onto the
>> existing extra options. And if I want to make this permanent, can I define
>> it in /etc/make.conf accordingly?
>>
>> .if ${.CURDIR:M*/mail/pine4}
>> EXTRA_OPTS+=	PASSFILE=.pine.pwd
>> .endif
>>
> But it will work from /etc/make.conf (using either "=" or "+="), as
> long as you don't select LDAP support.

Oh, so if I add the above stuff to /etc/make.conf it will work? Cool. Then 
why won't it work by passing it to "make" on the command line? I thought 
stuff in /etc/make.conf got passed to the "make" command ...

> A better way to add support for PASSFILE, would be to add:
>
>    PASSFILE "Add support for a Pine Password File (DANGEROUS)" off
>
> to the list of options, then add the following below .if
> defined(WITH_IPV6) ... .endif:
>
> .if defined(WITH_PASSFILE)
> EXTRA_OPTS+= PASSFILE=.pine.pwd
> .endif
<snip>
> After you make these changes and test them, submit the change using
> send-pr for inclusion to the pine4 port.  The maintainer will then
> make the decision if this change is appropriate for the ports.

That sounds like fun! I'll try it and get back if there's any problems. :)

Thanks!
Rakhesh