no need to patch configure, just add old to CONFIGURE_STYLE.

chinese/cless/Makefile

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Date created:         Thu Jan 18, 2000
 # Whom:                 Kevin Lo <kevlo@openbsd.org>
 #
-# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.13 2004/11/21 21:51:36 espie Exp $
+# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.14 2006/07/13 13:39:30 espie Exp $
 #
 
 COMMENT=	"pager utility that speaks Chinese"
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ PERMIT_DISTFILES_CDROM= Yes
 PERMIT_DISTFILES_FTP=   Yes
 WANTLIB=		c curses termcap
 
-CONFIGURE_STYLE= gnu dest
+CONFIGURE_STYLE= gnu dest old
 CFLAGS+=        -DHANZI # LDFLAGS=-s datadir=/usr/local/lib/less
 
 post-install:

chinese/cless/patches/patch-ae

@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
---- configure.orig	Tue Jan 18 17:55:09 2000
-+++ configure	Tue Jan 18 17:59:35 2000
-@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
- verbose=
- x_includes=NONE
- x_libraries=NONE
-+sysconfdir='${prefix}/etc'
- 
- # Initialize some other variables.
- subdirs=
-@@ -122,6 +123,7 @@
-   --exec-prefix=PREFIX    install architecture-dependent files in PREFIX
-                           [same as prefix]
-   --srcdir=DIR            find the sources in DIR [configure dir or ..]
-+  --sysconfdir=DIR        read-only single-machine data in DIR [PREFIX/etc]
-   --program-prefix=PREFIX prepend PREFIX to installed program names
-   --program-suffix=SUFFIX append SUFFIX to installed program names
-   --program-transform-name=PROGRAM run sed PROGRAM on installed program names
-@@ -207,6 +209,13 @@
-   -srcdir=* | --srcdir=* | --srcdi=* | --srcd=* | --src=* | --sr=*)
-     srcdir="$ac_optarg" ;;
- 
-+  -sysconfdir | --sysconfdir | --sysconfdi | --sysconfd | --sysconf \
-+  | --syscon | --sysco | --sysc | --sys | --sy)
-+    ac_prev=sysconfdir ;;
-+  -sysconfdir=* | --sysconfdir=* | --sysconfdi=* | --sysconfd=* | --sysconf=* \
-+  | --syscon=* | --sysco=* | --sysc=* | --sys=* | --sy=*)
-+    sysconfdir="$ac_optarg" ;;
-+
-   -target | --target | --targe | --targ | --tar | --ta | --t)
-     ac_prev=target ;;
-   -target=* | --target=* | --targe=* | --targ=* | --tar=* | --ta=* | --t=*)
-@@ -1822,6 +1831,7 @@
-   sed -e "$ac_comsub
- s%@configure_input@%$configure_input%g
- s%@srcdir@%$srcdir%g
-+s%@sysconfdir@%$sysconfdir%g
- s%@top_srcdir@%$top_srcdir%g
- s%@INSTALL@%$INSTALL%g
- " -f conftest.subs $ac_given_srcdir/$ac_file_in > $ac_file