"Inge Thorin Eidsæther" wrote:
>
> Hi all!
>
> General question:
> Does anyone know how to upgrade a port when the latest sources are
> available on the net, but haven't made it into the ports tree yet?
>
> Example:
> I need to rebuild mod_php4 (for Apache2) from the latest sources,
> because of a bug that (among other things) causes the file_exists
> function in php 4.2.3 to work incorrectly. The bug has been fixed
> in the latest sources, but these are (as far as I can tell) not
> in the FreeBSD ports tree yet.
>
> Is there some manual way to do it that does not require me to be
> an experienced programmer? I tried renaming the source tarball to
> that of the old one, and build with NO_CHECKSUM=yes
> (and WITH_APACHE2=yes), but the thing blew up complaining about
> patches that failed to apply cleanly.
Your main problem is, that the PHP4-dev (cvs snapshot) requires
libtool 1.4, but there's only 1.3 in ports tree.
If you really want to do this, write to a php4-support list.
There is a php4-developer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], he is a very cooperatively
person, he runs php4-dev under FreeBSD, maybe he can help you.
> BTW: I know about portupgrade, but I guess it's not relevant here.
Yes, that's right ...
> Thanks for your kind help!
Hope this helps a little ...
Bye,
Jens
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