Date: 25 Oct 2002 23:02:46 -0700 From: John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com> To: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: libtool-1.4 upgrade? Message-ID: <1035612167.431.19.camel@PC016247.reshall.uidaho.edu> In-Reply-To: <005a01c27cae$0ee270f0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <004601c27ca8$fe339ae0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <1035607719.431.16.camel@PC016247.reshall.uidaho.edu> <005a01c27cae$0ee270f0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
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My point is not that an updated shouldn't be attempted--if you're willing, I'm sure a way can be found to build it in eventually. My point is that coordination needs to be made with portmgr to initiate the project. :) On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 22:10, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > Well, if it's any consolation, I was planning on building and testing the > ports that depend on libtool :) > > If portsmgr is looking after this, what is the current ETA of libtool-1.4 in > the ports tree? > > Matt > > > Updating libtool is non-trivial. Screw up, even trivially, and hundreds > > of ports in the tree are instantly broken. For this reason, this port > > is portmgr property. > > > > jmc > > > > On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 21:34, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > > I noticed that we're still using libtool-1.3.4 which is quite dated > > > (December 1999 - almost 3 years old!) > > > > > > There are many known incompatibilities between libtool-1.3 and > > > autoconf-2.95, including autoconf's use of cache_file=/dev/null which > causes > > > libtool-1.3.4 to die immediately. > > > > > > It appears 'ade@freebsd.org' has recently dropped maintainership of the > > > libtool port, so I'd like to pick up the maintainership of the port and > > > handle the migration to libtool-1.4. > > > > > > I'd like to propose the following plan for migrating, which IIRC is > similar > > > to how the migration between autoconf 2.13 and 2.95 was handled. > > > > > > 1) Add a libtool14 port, containing libtool-1.4 (and at a later date, > > > libtool-1.4.[123]). This will allow people to test their ports with > > > libtool14 and submit feedback to me. > > > 2) Once the majority of ports work fine with libtool14, do the repocopy > of > > > 'libtool' -> 'libtool13' and 'libtool14' to 'libtool', thus making > libtool14 > > > the default. > > > > > > -- > > > Matt Emmerton > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message > > > > > -- > > _ > > | |V| / ' || MacroHard -- \ > > \_| | | \_, || the perfection of form over | > > ----------------------------------|| substance, marketing over | > > Web: http://www.borgsdemons.com || performance, and greed over | > > AIM: johnmcooper || design . . . | > > Yahoo: john_m_cooper || | > > =====================================================================/ > > Public Key: http://www.borgsdemons.com/Personal/pgpkey.asc | > > =====================================================================\ > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message > > -- _ | |V| / ' || MacroHard -- \ \_| | | \_, || the perfection of form over | ----------------------------------|| substance, marketing over | Web: http://www.borgsdemons.com || performance, and greed over | AIM: johnmcooper || design . . . | Yahoo: john_m_cooper || | =====================================================================/ Public Key: http://www.borgsdemons.com/Personal/pgpkey.asc | =====================================================================\ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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