Re: New ZoneMinder Port

On 2026/08/16 01:39, vansid wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2026 at 2:26 AM Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > (that is, type FETCH_PACKAGES= on the command line when you want it, rather than having it in mk.conf for all the time)
> >
> > --
> >   Sent from a phone, apologies for poor formatting.
> >
> 
> Thanks, everyone's advice has been SUPER helpful, I'm about 99% ready
> to submit something so that people can test my ZoneMinder port but I
> need just a little help getting that last percent finished:
> 
> 1) I'm trying to get 'make' to respect a cmake option that I'm trying
> to pass.  I've tried adding "CMAKE_ARGS +=   -DZM_PATH_MAP:PATH=/tmp"
> to my Makefile, and I've tried passing it via the command line, but it

CONFIGURE_ARGS not CMAKE_ARGS

> doesn't seem to "stick".  I'm doing an ugly sed workaround via an
> @exec statement in the PLIST, but I'm sure that's frowned upon
> (understandably so).  What I am doing wrong?
> 
> 2) Assuming I get this fixed (or temporarily give up), what is the
> process for submitting a port for testing? From what I'm able to glean
> it's a tgz of my port directory with a posting to this list, right?
> Is there a particular site where I should upload it, or is that up to
> me?
> 
> Thanks again for everyone's help!
> 
> -vansid

yes, just email a tar to ports@. It may take quite a while to get
reviewed as zoneminder is pretty complicated!