6 files changed, 143 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/distro/patches/findutils-absolute-paths.patch b/distro/patches/findutils-absolute-paths.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..96341e281f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/distro/patches/findutils-absolute-paths.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+Fix use of LFS-style absolute paths.
+
+Patches from Nixpkgs by Armijn Hemel <armijn@gpl-violations.org>
+and Wouter den Breejen <uu@denbreejen.net>.
+
+diff -ruN findutils-4.2.20/locate/updatedb.sh findutils-4.2.20.new/locate/updatedb.sh
+--- findutils-4.2.20/locate/updatedb.sh	2005-01-24 17:12:35.000000000 +0100
++++ findutils-4.2.20.new/locate/updatedb.sh	2005-08-23 14:37:10.000000000 +0200
+@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@
+ : ${code:=${LIBEXECDIR}/@code@}
+ 
+ 
+-PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:${BINDIR}; export PATH
++PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:${BINDIR}:${PATH}; export PATH
+ 
+ : ${PRUNEFS="nfs NFS proc afs proc smbfs autofs iso9660 ncpfs coda devpts ftpfs devfs mfs sysfs shfs"}
+ 
+diff -Naur findutils-4.2.30/xargs/xargs.c findutils-4.2.30_new/xargs/xargs.c
+--- findutils-4.2.30/xargs/xargs.c	2007-02-27 11:21:08.000000000 +0100
++++ findutils-4.2.30_new/xargs/xargs.c	2007-07-17 19:02:05.000000000 +0200
+@@ -402,7 +402,7 @@
+   int show_limits = 0;			/* --show-limits */
+   int always_run_command = 1;
+   char *input_file = "-"; /* "-" is stdin */
+-  char *default_cmd = "/bin/echo";
++  char *default_cmd = "echo";
+   int (*read_args) PARAMS ((void)) = read_line;
+   void (*act_on_init_result)(void) = noop;
+   int env_too_big = 0;
diff --git a/distro/patches/guile-1.8-cpp-4.5.patch b/distro/patches/guile-1.8-cpp-4.5.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..638d071baf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/distro/patches/guile-1.8-cpp-4.5.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+Fix doc snarfing with GCC 4.5+.
+From <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/commit/?h=branch_release-1-8&id=aac41d28358cea594bb30f6e547afb82bb6004a6>.
+
+diff --git a/scripts/snarf-check-and-output-texi b/scripts/snarf-check-and-output-texi
+index ea33e17..8cd42e8 100755
+--- a/scripts/snarf-check-and-output-texi
++++ b/scripts/snarf-check-and-output-texi
+@@ -267,6 +267,17 @@ exec ${GUILE-guile} -l $0 -c "(apply $main (cdr (command-line)))" "$@"
+       (set! *file* file)
+       (set! *line* line))
+ 
++     ;; newer gccs like to throw around more location markers into the
++     ;; preprocessed source; these (hash . hash) bits are what they translate to
++     ;; in snarfy terms.
++     (('location ('string . file) ('int . line) ('hash . 'hash))
++      (set! *file* file)
++      (set! *line* line))
++
++     (('location ('hash . 'hash) ('string . file) ('int . line) ('hash . 'hash))
++      (set! *file* file)
++      (set! *line* line))
++
+      (('arglist rest ...)
+       (set! *args* (do-arglist rest)))
diff --git a/distro/patches/m4-readlink-EINVAL.patch b/distro/patches/m4-readlink-EINVAL.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..dd371584a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/distro/patches/m4-readlink-EINVAL.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+Newer Linux kernels would return EINVAL instead of ENOENT.
+The patch below, taken from Gnulib, allows the test to pass when
+these Linux versions are in use:
+https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2011-03/msg00308.html .
+
+diff --git a/tests/test-readlink.h b/tests/test-readlink.h
+index 08d5662..7247fc4 100644
+--- a/tests/test-readlink.h
++++ b/tests/test-readlink.h
+@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ test_readlink (ssize_t (*func) (char const *, char *, size_t), bool print)
+   ASSERT (errno == ENOENT);
+   errno = 0;
+   ASSERT (func ("", buf, sizeof buf) == -1);
+-  ASSERT (errno == ENOENT);
++  ASSERT (errno == ENOENT || errno == EINVAL);
+   errno = 0;
+   ASSERT (func (".", buf, sizeof buf) == -1);
+   ASSERT (errno == EINVAL);
diff --git a/distro/patches/m4-s_isdir.patch b/distro/patches/m4-s_isdir.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a009a4ba44
--- /dev/null
+++ b/distro/patches/m4-s_isdir.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+Fails to build with glibc 2.12.1 without this patch.
+
+http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-m4/2010-05/msg00002.html
+
+--- a/src/path.c
++++ b/src/path.c
+@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
+ /* Handling of path search of included files via the builtins "include"
+    and "sinclude".  */
+ 
+ #include "m4.h"
++#include "sys/stat.h"
+ 
+ struct includes
diff --git a/distro/patches/make-impure-dirs.patch b/distro/patches/make-impure-dirs.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..83a5fbe3a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/distro/patches/make-impure-dirs.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+Purity: don't look for library dependencies (of the form `-lfoo') in
+/lib and /usr/lib.  Likewise, when searching for included Makefiles,
+don't look in /usr/include and friends.
+
+Patch from Nixpkgs, by Eelco Dolstra.
+
+diff -rc make-3.81-orig/read.c make-3.81/read.c
+*** make-3.81-orig/read.c	2006-03-17 15:24:20.000000000 +0100
+--- make-3.81/read.c	2007-05-24 17:16:31.000000000 +0200
+***************
+*** 99,107 ****
+--- 99,109 ----
+  #endif
+      INCLUDEDIR,
+  #ifndef _AMIGA
++ #if 0    
+      "/usr/gnu/include",
+      "/usr/local/include",
+      "/usr/include",
++ #endif    
+  #endif
+      0
+    };
+diff -rc make-3.81-orig/remake.c make-3.81/remake.c
+*** make-3.81-orig/remake.c	2006-03-20 03:36:37.000000000 +0100
+--- make-3.81/remake.c	2007-05-24 17:06:54.000000000 +0200
+***************
+*** 1452,1460 ****
+--- 1452,1462 ----
+    static char *dirs[] =
+      {
+  #ifndef _AMIGA
++ #if 0
+        "/lib",
+        "/usr/lib",
+  #endif
++ #endif
+  #if defined(WINDOWS32) && !defined(LIBDIR)
+  /*
+   * This is completely up to the user at product install time. Just define
diff --git a/distro/patches/readline-link-ncurses.patch b/distro/patches/readline-link-ncurses.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0fd0598f46
--- /dev/null
+++ b/distro/patches/readline-link-ncurses.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+This patch is to make sure that `libncurses' is among the `NEEDED'
+dependencies of `libreadline.so' and `libhistory.so'.
+
+Failing to do that, applications linking against Readline are
+forced to explicitly link against libncurses as well; in addition,
+this trick doesn't work when using GNU ld's `--as-needed'.
+
+--- shlib/Makefile.in	2009-01-06 18:03:22.000000000 +0100
++++ shlib/Makefile.in	2009-07-27 14:43:25.000000000 +0200
+@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ SHOBJ_LDFLAGS = @SHOBJ_LDFLAGS@
+ SHOBJ_XLDFLAGS = @SHOBJ_XLDFLAGS@
+ SHOBJ_LIBS = @SHOBJ_LIBS@
+ 
+-SHLIB_XLDFLAGS = @LDFLAGS@ @SHLIB_XLDFLAGS@
++SHLIB_XLDFLAGS = @LDFLAGS@ @SHLIB_XLDFLAGS@ -lncurses
+ SHLIB_LIBS = @SHLIB_LIBS@
+ 
+ SHLIB_DOT = @SHLIB_DOT@