Help required: how to add a patch to gnome-commmander2 port?

[Jens Rehsack]

Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 06:04:29 -0500, Jens Rehsack <rehsack at web.de> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I tried to update x11-fm/gnome-commander2/ to it's current version,
>> but there was an error in the ./configure script.
>> Piotr sent me a patch (modified version attached with applies cleanly
>> to the port), but it patched the configure.in and the port assumes
>> autoconf has been already run.
>>
>> Is it enough to add autoconf to the USE_AUTOTOOLS line or do I have
>> check/add sth. else?
> 
> You can either patch in configure or configure.in with USE_AUTOTOOLS. If 
> you want to keep patch in configure.in. I would do like this:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> USE_AUTOTOOLS=    autoconf:262:env
> GNU_CONFIGURE=    yes
> 
> [...]
> 
> pre-configure:
>     @(cd ${WRKSRC} && ${SETENV} ${AUTOTOOLS_ENV} ${AUTORECONF} -W none)
> --------------------------------------------------

I've added that.

> In your case, I think run autoreconf is good enough.

Because I'm not very familar with the GNU autotools, I follow your hint.
The port build fine but crashed later. I e-mail the gnome-commander
mailing-list with anything I can find out.

Thank you very much.
I don't think, the patch to update the port is wanted as long as it
crashes, isn't it?

/Jens