diff --git a/deskutils/krss/Makefile b/deskutils/krss/Makefile
index 88f64fde05c9..569d5d87c86e 100644
--- a/deskutils/krss/Makefile
+++ b/deskutils/krss/Makefile
@@ -16,23 +16,17 @@ MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR=	${PORTNAME}
 MAINTAINER=	ports@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	KDE Rich Site Summary viewer
 
-WANT_AUTOMAKE_VER=14
-WANT_AUTOCONF_VER=213
 USE_KDEBASE_VER=	3
 USE_GMAKE=	yes
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
 CONFIGURE_ENV=	LIBQT="-lqt-mt" KDB2HTML=${TRUE}
+USE_REINPLACE=	yes
 
 QTCPPFLAGS+=	${PTHREAD_CFLAGS}
 QTCFGLIBS+=	${PTHREAD_LIBS}
 
-pre-configure:
-	${MKDIR} ${WRKSRC}/auto-bin
-	${LN} -sf ${AUTOCONF} ${WRKSRC}/auto-bin/autoconf
-	${LN} -sf ${AUTOHEADER} ${WRKSRC}/auto-bin/autoheader
-	${LN} -sf ${AUTOMAKE} ${WRKSRC}/auto-bin/automake
-	${LN} -sf ${ACLOCAL} ${WRKSRC}/auto-bin/aclocal
-	cd ${WRKSRC} && env PATH=${WRKSRC}/auto-bin:$$PATH \
-		${GMAKE} -f Makefile.dist
+post-patch:
+	${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's|$$(LIB_KFILE)|-lkio|' ${WRKSRC}/krss/Makefile.in
+	${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's|-pedantic||' ${WRKSRC}/configure
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/deskutils/krss/files/patch-admin-acinclude.m4.in b/deskutils/krss/files/patch-admin-acinclude.m4.in
deleted file mode 100644
index 35ad5475f2ee..000000000000
--- a/deskutils/krss/files/patch-admin-acinclude.m4.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- admin/acinclude.m4.in.orig	Tue Sep 11 01:23:25 2001
-+++ admin/acinclude.m4.in	Sat Aug 30 04:07:57 2003
-@@ -2259,7 +2259,7 @@
-        CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS"
- 
-        if test true || test "$kde_use_debug_code" = "yes"; then
--	 CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -Wall -pedantic -W -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings"
-+	 CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS"
- 
-          KDE_CHECK_COMPILER_FLAG(Wno-long-long,
- 	 [
diff --git a/deskutils/krss/files/patch-krss-Makefile.am b/deskutils/krss/files/patch-krss-Makefile.am
deleted file mode 100644
index 9b1cc5c70c6a..000000000000
--- a/deskutils/krss/files/patch-krss-Makefile.am
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-
-
-Sep 10 23:17 2002 diff -ruN -l0 krss/Makefile.am~ krss/Makefile.am Page 1
-
-
---- krss/Makefile.am~	Tue Sep 10 23:15:10 2002
-+++ krss/Makefile.am	Tue Sep 10 23:15:19 2002
-@@ -4 +4 @@
--krss_LDADD   =  $(LIB_KFILE) $(LIB_KHTML) $(LIB_KDEUI) $(LIB_KDECORE) $(LIB_QT) $(LIBSOCKET)
-+krss_LDADD   =  -lkio $(LIB_KHTML) $(LIB_KDEUI) $(LIB_KDECORE) $(LIB_QT) $(LIBSOCKET)