diff --git a/synfigstudio/Makefile b/synfigstudio/Makefile
index 14e44c6b9f..b850ea20e4 100644
--- a/synfigstudio/Makefile
+++ b/synfigstudio/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.1.1.1 2008/07/21 01:05:11 phonohawk Exp $
+# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.2 2008/07/21 03:00:34 phonohawk Exp $
 #
 
 DISTNAME=	synfigstudio-0.61.08
@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ USE_DIRS+=			xdg-1.4
 
 GCONF2_SCHEMAS+=	synfigstudio-thumbnailer.schemas
 
+USE_TOOLS+=	automake
+pre-configure:
+	cd ${WRKSRC} && autoreconf
+
 .include "../../devel/GConf/schemas.mk"
 .include "../../devel/libsigc++/buildlink3.mk"
 .include "../../devel/gettext-lib/buildlink3.mk"
diff --git a/synfigstudio/distinfo b/synfigstudio/distinfo
index 116358c9ac..3b3d5c2465 100644
--- a/synfigstudio/distinfo
+++ b/synfigstudio/distinfo
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
-$NetBSD: distinfo,v 1.1.1.1 2008/07/21 01:05:11 phonohawk Exp $
+$NetBSD: distinfo,v 1.2 2008/07/21 03:00:34 phonohawk Exp $
 
 SHA1 (synfigstudio-0.61.08.tar.gz) = bbf5e9d5923804ef514a81444fce09ca4d1006f3
 RMD160 (synfigstudio-0.61.08.tar.gz) = 954fa1050dd20c0f72aed1914528bbdfb4ba53d6
 Size (synfigstudio-0.61.08.tar.gz) = 1204766 bytes
+SHA1 (patch-aa) = d427710fdaf5db9acf2870df46fe491b30eb339b
+SHA1 (patch-ab) = ea82744926f88bdef7b2d902ed69d4d7d23936eb
diff --git a/synfigstudio/patches/patch-aa b/synfigstudio/patches/patch-aa
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1f23f7225b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/synfigstudio/patches/patch-aa
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+$NetBSD: patch-aa,v 1.1 2008/07/21 03:00:34 phonohawk Exp $
+
+--- configure.ac.orig	Mon Mar  3 04:18:01 2008
++++ configure.ac
+@@ -216,6 +216,7 @@ AC_CHECK_HEADERS([unistd.h signal.h fcnt
+ AC_CHECK_HEADERS([sys/types.h sys/wait.h sys/stat.h sys/time.h sys/resource.h sys/errno.h])
+ 
+ # -- T Y P E S & S T R U C T S --------------------------------
++AC_CHECK_DECLS([daylight])
+ 
+ # -- F U N C T I O N S ----------------------------------------
+ 
diff --git a/synfigstudio/patches/patch-ab b/synfigstudio/patches/patch-ab
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..01ad1debb1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/synfigstudio/patches/patch-ab
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+$NetBSD: patch-ab,v 1.1 2008/07/21 03:00:34 phonohawk Exp $
+
+--- src/synfigapp/cvs.cpp.orig	Tue Nov 13 18:13:07 2007
++++ src/synfigapp/cvs.cpp
+@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ using namespace synfigapp;
+ #define HAVE_STRPTIME
+ #endif
+ 
+-#ifdef __APPLE__
++#if !HAVE_DAYLIGHT
+ time_t _daylight_() { time_t t(time(0)); return localtime(&t)->tm_gmtoff; }
+ #define daylight _daylight_()
+ #endif