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

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:10:33 -0500, Jens Rehsack <rehsack at web.de> wrote:

> 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.

I forgot to remind you about that if you need to patch in Makefile, be  
sure to patch in Makefile.am instead of Makefile.in.

> 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?

It's not worth to update if this update doesn't work. Once it's fixed,  
then it's good to go.

Cheers,
Mezz

> /Jens


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