On Mar 21, 2007, at 5:37 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Mar 21, 2007, at 15:07, Kevin Windham wrote:
I am trying to figure out the easiest way to apply a patch to a port and still use the port command to install and uninstall etc.
The port is giflib and the patch file is here.
<http://users.own-hero.net/~decoder/fuzzyocr/giftext-segfault.patch>
Is there a simple way to modify the local portfile to install this patch for me.
If you find that the patch works, and you would like to submit these changes to the Portfile for all to enjoy, create a ticket in Trac, attach you patchfile, and also a unified diff of your changes for the Portfile, and tell us here what the ticket number is, and someone can commit it. Also, note that giflib has no maintainer; if you would like to become the maintainer, just say so, or you can also just change the maintainers line in the Portfile to your email address and include that in the Portfile diff in the ticket.
I managed to get this working and the patch seems to work as well, although I am not the originator of the patch. I am actually trying to install fuzzyocr and they recommended this patch on their site as the giftext tool would crash on certain malformed gifs. I don't have any of those gifs to test with, and I didn't find any with google when I went to try and test their fix. Anyway, I think it would probably be a good idea to update the port for anyone else who wants to use this. In order to get the patch to work properly I needed to run the diff tool from the giflib directory and pass it relative paths to the giftext.c file. Is there any similar convention that would need to be followed for making the diff of the portfile? I don't have a clue how the backend works as far as maintaining the ports, so I want to make sure I do that properly before I create the ticket in Trac. Thanks for your help, Kevin