From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 1 10:27:09 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EB5216A402 for ; Mon, 1 May 2006 10:27:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andreas.eriksson@gmail.com) Received: from uproxy.gmail.com (uproxy.gmail.com [66.249.92.175]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACF7843D48 for ; Mon, 1 May 2006 10:27:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andreas.eriksson@gmail.com) Received: by uproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id m3so1888629ugc for ; Mon, 01 May 2006 03:27:07 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=RBEnGYUTq4Qxwj0D4AbkclciyyT/UvvtEZlSQUXOWPVZf6mwDOe5zCgLnNTska0TDnVIGCSQoH0HcRVYU2zDn0OoAogxm27ju/8wcxpYrL/TRCdXKBQnh0wnngv+KA14mAYvkja2zvHuK91xghbaPhxTYcNREcJ3WyNUi3K+yXA= Received: by 10.78.51.9 with SMTP id y9mr155320huy; Mon, 01 May 2006 03:27:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.26.10 with HTTP; Mon, 1 May 2006 03:27:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <79052f10605010327o282bdde6r9d6a40258dba93a7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 03:27:07 -0700 From: "Andreas Eriksson" To: "Andreas Eriksson" In-Reply-To: <79052f10605010308k671de27bic6520cb9bd02279b@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <79052f10605010308k671de27bic6520cb9bd02279b@mail.gmail.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: makeztxt is very outdated X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 10:27:09 -0000 I got bored and did some more digging, and it turned out that the soulution was very simple. Upstream has already applied all the patches except for one, so just delete all the patches except for the patch-Makefile one and it compiles and runs nicely. Could someone update the ports collection to include this newer version? Again, please CC replies to me, since I'm not subscribed. On 5/1/06, Andreas Eriksson wrote: > The makeztxt program used to convert text files onto ztxt files > (readable by the palm os book reader weasel @ gutenpalm.sf.net, which > is where makeztxt is hosted too) is pretty outdated. The version in > ports (1.43) is from March 2002, and the newest version (1.60) is from > August 2003. > > Its not just as simple as changing the version number in the makefile, > because at least one of the patches that are applied doesn't apply to > the new version. > > I'm sending this here since the port doesn't have a maintainer. > I'm new to the FreeBSD port system (but not to patching and Makefiles > iin general) so it would probably be best if someone else took care of > this, however, if no one is willing to I'll go read up on the port > system and fix it myself, and submit the changes here. > > Please CC any replies you send to the list to me, since I'm not subscribe= d. > > -- > Andreas Eriksson (TPC) > -- Andreas Eriksson (TPC) Visit my website: http://www.tpwch.com