Patching php port

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 11:37:29AM +0100, Tamar Lea wrote:
> Hello all
> 
> I am trying to install the php 5.2.6 port with thttpd. I have a patch file
> to make it compile with version 2.25b, because the standard version only
> works with 2.21. The patch works but the files always get overwritten when I
> run the build again. How do I do this?
> 
> These are the commands I used
> 
> cd /usr/ports/lang/php5
> make extract
> make patch
> cd work
> patch -p0 < ~/ports/thttpd.diff
> vi php-5.2.6/configure # and other checks to see if the patch worked
> cd ..
> make install
> 
> This results in an error in the configure file, which has reverted to the
> original. What am I doing wrong?

Never modify "configure" scripts.  You need to modify the autoconf
template the configure script is built off of.

In the case of lang/php5, autoconf is run to build the configure script
during the "make configure" stage (which is being executed during part
of "make install").  Note the USE_AUTOTOOLS line in the Makefile.

Make your changes to configure.in.

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