diff --git a/.cvsignore b/.cvsignore
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29..0000000
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..50517fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+ale-0.9.0.3.tar.gz
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index 6d5baef..0000000
--- a/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-# Makefile for source rpm: ale
-# $Id$
-NAME := ale
-SPECFILE = $(firstword $(wildcard *.spec))
-
-define find-makefile-common
-for d in common ../common ../../common ; do if [ -f $$d/Makefile.common ] ; then if [ -f $$d/CVS/Root -a -w $$/Makefile.common ] ; then cd $$d ; cvs -Q update ; fi ; echo "$$d/Makefile.common" ; break ; fi ; done
-endef
-
-MAKEFILE_COMMON := $(shell $(find-makefile-common))
-
-ifeq ($(MAKEFILE_COMMON),)
-# attept a checkout
-define checkout-makefile-common
-test -f CVS/Root && { cvs -Q -d $$(cat CVS/Root) checkout common && echo "common/Makefile.common" ; } || { echo "ERROR: I can't figure out how to checkout the 'common' module." ; exit -1 ; } >&2
-endef
-
-MAKEFILE_COMMON := $(shell $(checkout-makefile-common))
-endif
-
-include $(MAKEFILE_COMMON)
diff --git a/ale-0.9.0.1-gcc43.patch b/ale-0.9.0.1-gcc43.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..87c8e27
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ale-0.9.0.1-gcc43.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+diff -ruN ale-0.9.0.1-orig/ui/ui.h ale-0.9.0.1/ui/ui.h
+--- ale-0.9.0.1-orig/ui/ui.h	2008-06-13 18:20:56.000000000 -0400
++++ ale-0.9.0.1/ui/ui.h	2008-09-24 09:32:51.000000000 -0400
+@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
+ #ifndef __ui_h__
+ #define __ui_h__
+ 
++#include <cstring>
+ #include <stdio.h>
+ #include <stdlib.h>
+ #include <string.h>
diff --git a/ale.spec b/ale.spec
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..634edb6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ale.spec
@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+Name: ale
+Version: 0.9.0.3
+Release: 1%{?dist}
+Summary: Combines multiple inputs of the same scene
+
+Group: Applications/Multimedia
+License: GPLv3
+URL: http://auricle.dyndns.org/ALE/
+Source0: http://auricle.dyndns.org/ALE/download/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+# sent patch to upstream mailing list on 2008.09.23
+Patch0: ale-0.9.0.1-gcc43.patch
+BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
+
+BuildRequires: ImageMagick-devel
+BuildRequires: fftw-devel >= 3.0.0
+Requires: perl-Image-ExifTool
+Requires: dcraw
+
+%description
+ALE is an image-processing program used for tasks such as image mosaicking,
+super-resolution, deblurring, noise reduction, anti-aliasing, and scene
+reconstruction. Its principle of operation is synthetic capture, combining
+multiple inputs representing the same scene.
+
+
+%prep
+%setup -q
+%patch0 -p1
+
+
+%build
+%configure \
+	--enable-wmx \
+	--with-hashmap=gnu \
+	--with-imagemagick \
+	--with-fftw3
+make %{_smp_mflags}
+
+
+%install
+rm -rf %{buildroot}
+make DESTDIR=%{buildroot} install
+
+# install scripts
+%{__install} -p -m 0755 scripts/ale-psf-calibrate %{buildroot}%{_bindir}
+%{__install} -p -m 0755 scripts/cpfmerge %{buildroot}%{_bindir}
+%{__install} -p -m 0755 scripts/sko2cpf %{buildroot}%{_bindir}
+%{__install} -p -m 0755 scripts/transform %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/ale-transform
+
+
+%clean
+rm -rf %{buildroot}
+
+
+%files
+%defattr(-, root, root)
+%doc AUTHORS COPYING ChangeLog NEWS README TODO
+%{_bindir}/*
+%{_mandir}/man1/*.1*
+
+
+%changelog
+* Tue Mar 31 2009 Douglas E. Warner <silfreed@silfreed.net> - 0.9.0.3-1
+- update to 0.9.0.3
+- Revise --version to include ImageMagick library information.
+- Add ditz issue database and package document BUG-REPORTING.
+- Refine warnings for 8-bit output when --16bpc (incl. default).
+- Fix --16bpc default behavior.
+- Fixed serious memory leak in alignment code, and less serious leaks.
+
+* Wed Sep 23 2008 Douglas E. Warner <silfreed@silfreed.net> 0.9.0.1-2
+- updated gcc4.3 patch for 0.9.0.1 to compile w/ new fuzz settings
+
+* Wed Jun 18 2008 Douglas E. Warner <silfreed@silfreed.net> 0.9.0.1-1
+- updating to ale 0.9.0.1
+
+* Fri May 09 2008 Douglas E. Warner <silfreed@silfreed.net> 0.9.0-3
+- adding Requires perl-Image-ExifTool, dcraw
+
+* Mon Apr 21 2008 Douglas E. Warner <silfreed@silfreed.net> 0.9.0-2
+- adding additional configuration options (imagemagick, fftw3, wmx,
+  gnu hashmap) and build requires to satisfy them
+- installing scripts
+
+* Mon Apr 21 2008 Douglas E. Warner <silfreed@silfreed.net> 0.9.0-1
+- update to 0.9.0
+- added GCC 4.3 compilation patch
+
+* Wed Mar 19 2008 Douglas E. Warner <silfreed@silfreed.net> 0.8.11-1
+- update to 0.8.11
+- updating spec to fedora standards
+- updating License to GPLv3
+- removing Requires ldconfig
+- shortened summary
+- added dist tag
+
+* Mon Apr 30 2007 Douglas E. Warner <silfreed@silfreed.net> 0.8.7-1
+- Initial RPM release.
+
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index e69de29..cdc2972 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+ace3d9874577085112adbf409f27b069  ale-0.9.0.3.tar.gz