On Mar 21, 2007, at 9:19 PM, Kevin Windham wrote:
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.
I found another port which I think can be updated fairly easily. The
netpbm graphics routines are required for FuzzyOcr. One of the tools
FuzzyOcr uses is called pamthreshold and it is only available in
netpbm 10.34 or later. I edited the portfile to use 10.34 as the
version, and updated the md5 hash for the 10.34 .tgz archive and
installed the port. It installed normally, and I tested the several
of the utilities required for FuzzyOcr including pamthreshold, and
they seem to work fine.
This may be useful for others who are wanting to get rid of those
annoying image spams.
Kevin
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