tnftp builds and works fine on ppc-macos, but a patch is needed to make the final binary link with the internal static libedit.
Created attachment 70563 [details, diff] tnftp-macos.patch
Created attachment 70576 [details, diff] tnftp-macos.patch this patch adds a test to configure.in; autoconf 2.13 is needed to regenerate configure, since LIBOBJS is used directly.
Created attachment 70613 [details, diff] tnftp-autoconf.patch This patch makes configure.in autoconf-2.59 compatible, so configure can be regenerated also on non progressive profiles.
Given that the not standard behaviour of apple's linker will make also other packages unhappy, what about adding to make.defaults the following line? LDFLAGS="-Xlinker -search_paths_first"
hmmm... Kito? What are your thoughts on that?
this ebuild is not really interesting for OSX users, since tnftp seems to be shipped with Tiger as 'ftp'. I can't really make a distinction between the two. Nevertheless, I aggregated the two patches in one, and did an eautoreconf to enable it's changes. Appears to work quite fine. I bumped the revision to -r1 because I have the feeling this patch should be tested by other archs first at least.
This patch causes trouble for non-macos.
What is the problem exactly?
Ah... I like quick responses see bug #113777
patch needed autoconf 2.5+, fixed in ebuild