From: Larry Moore <lmoore@starwon.com.au>
Subject: Re: [UPDATE] comms/hylafax
To: Stuart Cassoff <exokoide@yahoo.ca>, OpenBSD Ports <ports@openbsd.org>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2026 23:19:07 +0800

On 11/02/2026 12:55 am, Stuart Cassoff wrote:
> Update to 6.0.7.
> 
> Unmark BROKEN; required programs returned in TIFF 4.7.0.
> Drop a fix that was fixed upstream.
> 
> 
> 
> diff -Nurp /usr/ports//comms/hylafax/Makefile ./Makefile
> --- /usr/ports//comms/hylafax/Makefile	Fri Oct 20 15:41:52 2023
> +++ ./Makefile	Mon Feb  9 14:37:16 2026
> @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
>   COMMENT=		send/receive faxes and share modems
> -DISTNAME=		hylafax-6.0.6
> -REVISION=		16
> +
> +DISTNAME=		hylafax-6.0.7
> +
>   CATEGORIES=		comms
> -BROKEN=			abandonware, uses binaries removed in tiff 4.6
>   
>   HOMEPAGE=		https://www.HylaFAX.org/
>   
> diff -Nurp /usr/ports//comms/hylafax/distinfo ./distinfo
> --- /usr/ports//comms/hylafax/distinfo	Thu Jul 19 11:05:30 2012
> +++ ./distinfo	Mon Feb  9 14:37:22 2026
> @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
> -SHA256 (hylafax-6.0.6.tar.gz) = KJJpFbI85/W0iW3orF9YOJwsbmu3O07uW71RKWA798A=
> -SIZE (hylafax-6.0.6.tar.gz) = 1297412
> +SHA256 (hylafax-6.0.7.tar.gz) = o9yxp/2HlL0zzqmpQUwy2hABGd0hMb0IqzqzdJ/DAxU=
> +SIZE (hylafax-6.0.7.tar.gz) = 1309111
> diff -Nurp /usr/ports//comms/hylafax/patches/patch-libhylafax_FaxRecvInfo_c++ ./patches/patch-libhylafax_FaxRecvInfo_c++
> --- /usr/ports//comms/hylafax/patches/patch-libhylafax_FaxRecvInfo_c++	Fri Mar 11 13:26:27 2022
> +++ ./patches/patch-libhylafax_FaxRecvInfo_c++	Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
> @@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
> -Allow building with C++14
> -
> -Index: libhylafax/FaxRecvInfo.c++
> ---- libhylafax/FaxRecvInfo.c++.orig
> -+++ libhylafax/FaxRecvInfo.c++
> -@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ FaxRecvInfo::decode(const char* cp)
> -     if (cp == NULL || cp[1] != ',' || cp[2] != '"')
> - 	return (false);
> -     u_int i = 0;
> --    while (cp+2 != '\0') {
> -+    while (*(cp+2) != '\0') {
> - 	callid[i] = cp+3;		// +1 for "/+1 for ,/+1 for "
> - 	if (*cp == '\"') break;
> - 	callid[i].resize(callid[i].next(0,'"'));
> 

Hi Stu,

In addition to these I applied changes to the Makefile and PLIST.

In my testing late last year I found that faxgetty in HylaFAX 6.0.6 will 
crash when receiving a facsimile when ECM is not negotiated during call 
establishment. The same occurs in 6.0.7.

This problem seems to go way back to OpenBSD 6.1 and possibly 6.0 but I 
didn't test that version. I did test with OpenBSD 5.9 and no problems 
were experienced with it.

If you would like to discuss this further you may PM me.

To overcome the faxgetty crash I disabled compiler optimisation;

diff -Nurp /usr/ports/comms/hylafax-6.0.7/Makefile

--- /usr/ports/comms/hylafax-6.0.7/Makefile	Wed Feb 11 19:19:10 2026
+++ ./Makefile	Sun Oct 12 16:43:14 2025
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ CONFIGURE_ARGS=		--nointeractive \
  			--with-CC="${CC}" \
  			--with-CXX="${CXX}" \
  			--with-INSTALL="" \
-			--with-OPTIMIZER=""
+			--with-OPTIMIZER="-O0"

  CONFIGURE_ENV+=		CCOMPILER="${CC}" CXXCOMPILER="${CXX}" \
  			GCOPTS="${CFLAGS}" GCXXOPTS="${CXXFLAGS}" \


The changes to PLIST are:

1) Change the permissions of libdata/hylafax/etc/hfaxd.conf

2) Removed libdata/hylafax/etc/xferfaxlog

The reason behind removing xferfaxlog are two fold. Firstly, faxgetty 
cannot update accounting records in this file due to the restrictive 
permissions;

Feb 11 21:16:16 openbsd-78-amd64 FaxGetty[32794]: Error writing CALL 
accounting record, dest=+61.REDACTED
Feb 11 21:18:24 openbsd-78-amd64 FaxGetty[32794]: Error writing RECV 
accounting record, dest=+61.REDACTED

Secondly, this file will collect historical records over time. Should 
the package need to be removed for some reason this file will go - I 
believe that was my experience even though it had updated records in 
this file after I changed the permissions. faxgetty creates this file if 
it doesn't exists.

diff -Nurp /usr/ports/comms/hylafax-6.0.7/pkg/PLIST

--- /usr/ports/comms/hylafax-6.0.7/pkg/PLIST	Sat Mar 12 02:26:27 2022
+++ ./pkg/PLIST	Sun Oct 12 16:33:43 2025
@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ libdata/hylafax/etc/dpsprinter.ps
  libdata/hylafax/etc/faxcover.ps
  libdata/hylafax/etc/faxcover_example_sgi.ps
  libdata/hylafax/etc/faxmail.ps
+@mode 644
  libdata/hylafax/etc/hfaxd.conf
  @mode 600
  libdata/hylafax/etc/hosts.hfaxd
@@ -365,7 +366,6 @@ libdata/hylafax/etc/templates/ro/notify-removed.txt
  libdata/hylafax/etc/templates/ro/notify-requeued.txt
  libdata/hylafax/etc/templates/ro/notify-timedout.txt
  libdata/hylafax/etc/typerules
-libdata/hylafax/etc/xferfaxlog
  libdata/hylafax/info/
  libdata/hylafax/log/
  libdata/hylafax/pollq/


Cheers,

Larry.