diff -urN textproc/xerces-c2.orig/Makefile textproc/xerces-c2/Makefile
--- textproc/xerces-c2.orig/Makefile	Fri Nov 15 17:00:34 2002
+++ textproc/xerces-c2/Makefile	Mon Dec 30 17:26:43 2002
@@ -55,10 +55,12 @@
 GNU_CONFIGURE=		yes
 CONFIGURE_ENV+=		XERCESCROOT=${WRKSRC} TRANSCODER=${TRANSCODER}
 CONFIGURE_SCRIPT=	runConfigure
-CONFIGURE_ARGS?=	-p freebsd -c ${CC} -x ${CXX} -n socket -P ${PREFIX}
+CONFIGURE_ARGS+=	-p freebsd -c ${CC} -x ${CXX} -n socket -P ${PREFIX}
 
 CONFIGURE_ARGS+=	-t ${TRANSCODER}
 
+.include <bsd.port.pre.mk>
+
 .if defined(NO_THREADS)
 CONFIGURE_ARGS+=	-r none
 .endif
@@ -73,7 +75,7 @@
 ALL_TARGET?=	all samples
 XERCES_BINS?=	CreateDOMDocument DOMCount DOMPrint EnumVal MemParse PParse \
 	Redirect SAX2Count SAX2Print SAXCount SAXPrint SEnumVal StdInParse
-SAMPLES_CONFIG_ARGS?=	-p freebsd -x g++
+SAMPLES_CONFIG_ARGS+=	-p freebsd -c ${CC} -x ${CXX}
 .if defined(NO_THREADS)
 SAMPLES_CONFIG_ARGS+=	-r none
 .endif
@@ -143,4 +145,4 @@
 .endfor
 .endif
 
-.include <bsd.port.mk>
+.include <bsd.port.post.mk>
diff -urN textproc/xerces-c2.orig/Makefile.alpha textproc/xerces-c2/Makefile.alpha
--- textproc/xerces-c2.orig/Makefile.alpha	Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
+++ textproc/xerces-c2/Makefile.alpha	Mon Dec 30 17:26:28 2002
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# Date created:		29 December 2002
+# Whom:			"Bjoern A. Zeeb" (bzeeb+freebsdports@zabbadoz.net)
+#
+# $FreeBSD$
+#
+
+# set bitsToBuild to 64
+CONFIGURE_ARGS+=	-b 64
+SAMPLES_CONFIG_ARGS+=	-b 64
+
diff -urN textproc/xerces-c2.orig/Makefile.sparc64 textproc/xerces-c2/Makefile.sparc64
--- textproc/xerces-c2.orig/Makefile.sparc64	Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
+++ textproc/xerces-c2/Makefile.sparc64	Mon Dec 30 17:26:33 2002
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+# Date created:		26 December 2002
+# Whom:			"Bjoern A. Zeeb" (bzeeb+freebsdports@zabbadoz.net)
+#
+# $FreeBSD$
+#
+
+# When there are no probs with libc_r / pthreads on sparc64-freebsd we
+# should remove this files or make it conditional on OSVERSION
+NO_THREADS=	yes
+
+# set bitsToBuild to 64
+CONFIGURE_ARGS+=	-b 64
+SAMPLES_CONFIG_ARGS+=	-b 64
+
diff -urN textproc/xerces-c2.orig/files/patch-aa textproc/xerces-c2/files/patch-aa
--- textproc/xerces-c2.orig/files/patch-aa	Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
+++ textproc/xerces-c2/files/patch-aa	Fri Dec 27 21:06:44 2002
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+--- ./src/xercesc/util/Transcoders/IconvFBSD/IconvFBSDTransService.cpp.orig	Fri Dec 27 21:04:38 2002
++++ ./src/xercesc/util/Transcoders/IconvFBSD/IconvFBSDTransService.cpp	Fri Dec 27 21:06:26 2002
+@@ -1091,7 +1091,8 @@
+ 	// perform conversion
+ 	wLent *= uChSize();
+ 	char	*ptr = retVal;
+-	size_t	rc = iconvTo(wideCharBuf, &wLent, &ptr, neededLen);
++	size_t	tmpwLent = wLent;
++	size_t	rc = iconvTo(wideCharBuf, &tmpwLent, &ptr, neededLen);
+ 	if (rc == (size_t)-1) {
+ 	    if (wBufPtr)
+ 		delete [] wBufPtr;