diff --git a/editors/hexedit/Makefile b/editors/hexedit/Makefile
index b94f3a2ffe36..1f5aa7399d5b 100644
--- a/editors/hexedit/Makefile
+++ b/editors/hexedit/Makefile
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 #
 
 PORTNAME=		hexedit
-PORTVERSION=		1.1.0
+PORTVERSION=		1.2.1
 CATEGORIES=		editors
 MASTER_SITES=		http://www.chez.com/prigaux/ \
 			${MASTER_SITE_SUNSITE}
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ EXTRACT_SUFX=		.src.tgz
 
 MAINTAINER=		obrien@FreeBSD.org
 
-USE_AUTOCONF=		yes
+GNU_CONFIGURE=		yes
 
 ALL_TARGET=
 WRKSRC=			${WRKDIR}/hexedit
diff --git a/editors/hexedit/distinfo b/editors/hexedit/distinfo
index 776ba7adac38..287e31ac11ec 100644
--- a/editors/hexedit/distinfo
+++ b/editors/hexedit/distinfo
@@ -1 +1 @@
-MD5 (hexedit-1.1.0.src.tgz) = 29972c7afc503f55e728a8310ef8491a
+MD5 (hexedit-1.2.1.src.tgz) = fb054afa8c7606c005642e3df8194b19
diff --git a/editors/hexedit/files/patch-aa b/editors/hexedit/files/patch-aa
deleted file mode 100644
index 104512a9dcbb..000000000000
--- a/editors/hexedit/files/patch-aa
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- hexedit.h.orig	Mon Aug 31 20:50:50 1998
-+++ hexedit.h	Sun Dec  6 15:36:13 1998
-@@ -12,7 +12,11 @@
- #if HAVE_UNISTD_H
- #include <unistd.h>
- #endif
-+#if HAVE_NCURSES_H
-+#include <ncurses.h>
-+#else
- #include <curses.h>
-+#endif
- #include <ctype.h>
- #include <signal.h>
- #if HAVE_SYS_WAIT_H
diff --git a/editors/hexedit/files/patch-ab b/editors/hexedit/files/patch-ab
deleted file mode 100644
index 05a59be69775..000000000000
--- a/editors/hexedit/files/patch-ab
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- configure.in.orig	Thu Sep 10 17:23:35 1998
-+++ configure.in	Sun Dec  6 15:31:53 1998
-@@ -23,10 +23,11 @@
- AC_PROG_INSTALL
- 
- dnl Checks for libraries.
--AC_CHECK_LIB(curses, initscr, LIBS="$LIBS -lcurses",
--AC_CHECK_LIB(ncurses, initscr, LIBS="$LIBS -lncurses"))
-+AC_CHECK_LIB(ncurses, initscr, LIBS="$LIBS -lncurses",
-+AC_CHECK_LIB(curses, initscr, LIBS="$LIBS -lcurses"))
- 
- dnl Checks for header files.
-+AC_CHECK_HEADER(ncurses.h, [AC_DEFINE(HAVE_NCURSES_H)])
- AC_HEADER_STDC
- AC_HEADER_SYS_WAIT
- AC_CHECK_HEADERS(fcntl.h unistd.h)