diff --git a/editors/gedit/distinfo b/editors/gedit/distinfo
index 3d453e427adb..406d72a4c411 100644
--- a/editors/gedit/distinfo
+++ b/editors/gedit/distinfo
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
-$NetBSD: distinfo,v 1.52 2010/11/03 19:55:18 drochner Exp $
+$NetBSD: distinfo,v 1.53 2012/10/26 15:51:13 jperkin Exp $
 
 SHA1 (gedit-2.30.4.tar.bz2) = ff7f4088d0b89224b84406557a7d9970323fdcc3
 RMD160 (gedit-2.30.4.tar.bz2) = b2659b8847ef02c66a70acd2f4a492555e1e4d21
 Size (gedit-2.30.4.tar.bz2) = 4705692 bytes
 SHA1 (patch-ab) = 06f1492437126f8ee12bda5b5dd090b713885ba2
 SHA1 (patch-ac) = 997c8a7ddcfc98369afdf42dddeff5cf6e159c23
+SHA1 (patch-tests_document-saver.c) = 5317930c5da888c33f43f341e627b2e85829212b
diff --git a/editors/gedit/patches/patch-tests_document-saver.c b/editors/gedit/patches/patch-tests_document-saver.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e26a760ff89d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/editors/gedit/patches/patch-tests_document-saver.c
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+$NetBSD: patch-tests_document-saver.c,v 1.1 2012/10/26 15:51:13 jperkin Exp $
+
+Define ACCESSPERMS for systems which do not have it.
+
+--- tests/document-saver.c.orig	2012-10-26 15:41:49.737048981 +0000
++++ tests/document-saver.c	2012-10-26 15:42:28.479034452 +0000
+@@ -27,6 +27,10 @@
+ #include <string.h>
+ #include <sys/stat.h>
+ 
++#ifndef ACCESSPERMS
++#define ACCESSPERMS (S_IRWXU|S_IRWXG|S_IRWXO)
++#endif
++
+ #define DEFAULT_LOCAL_URI "/tmp/gedit-document-saver-test.txt"
+ #define DEFAULT_REMOTE_URI "sftp://localhost/tmp/gedit-document-saver-test.txt"
+ #define DEFAULT_CONTENT "hello world!"