Patching php port

[Tamar Lea]

Thanks for your reply, Jeremy. I now understand why it didn't work, but I
have absolutely no idea how to edit configure.in. I have only just figured
out what my patch is doing today. I think it would be easier to tell the
makefile to modify configure after the autoconf, but I don't know how to do
that either. This is the patch I wish to apply:
diff -pruN php-5.2.6/configure php-5.2.6-thttpd225b/configure
--- php-5.2.6/configure 2007-11-08 23:36:28.000000000 +0800
+++ php-5.2.6-thttpd225b/configure 2007-12-06 13:10:13.000000000 +0800
@@ -11525,10 +11525,14 @@ if test "$PHP_THTTPD" != "no"; then
  patch="test -f $THTTPD/php_patched || \
  (cd $THTTPD && patch -p1 < $abs_srcdir/sapi/thttpd/thttpd_patch && touch
php_patched)"

+ elif grep thttpd.2.25b $PHP_THTTPD/version.h >/dev/null; then
+ patch="test -f $THTTPD/php_patched || \
+ (cd $THTTPD && patch -p1 < $abs_srcdir/sapi/thttpd/thttpd-2.25b_patch &&
touch php_patched)"
+
  elif grep Premium $PHP_THTTPD/version.h >/dev/null; then
  patch=
  else
- { echo "configure: error: This version only supports thttpd-2.21b and
Premium thttpd" 1>&2; exit 1; }
+ { echo "configure: error: This version only supports thttpd-2.21b,
thttpd-2.25b and Premium thttpd" 1>&2; exit 1; }
  fi

Ideally I would like to do this myself but I think the learning curve is too
steep right now. Any suggestions appreciated.
Tamar
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu at freebsd.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> | Jeremy Chadwick                                jdc at parodius.com |
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