Jan Danielsson wrote: > my next guess is that my change to > configure.ac will never do any good, because the configure merely *runs* > the configure script, without actually generating it from the > configure.ac file. ... Ergo, I need to run autoconf. As they say in Sweden, "Ja, just det." Exactly. autoconf reads configure.ac and generates configure. If I were tackling something like this, not knowing much about pkgsrc internals, I'd develop my patches from the applications CVS tree or latest tarball, outside pkgsrc. Then, once I had a clean build and a running program, I'd go back to figuring how to package it. But maybe there's an easier way.... Regards, --jkl