From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Oct 2 23:24:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E98B037B503; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 23:24:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id XAA43351; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 23:24:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 23:24:33 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Daniel Stenberg Cc: kris@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD port: curl-7.2.1 Message-ID: <20001002232433.A42050@freefall.freebsd.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from daniel@haxx.se on Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 08:16:05AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 08:16:05AM +0200, Daniel Stenberg wrote: > Hi > > I couldn't help noticing the curl 7.2.1 information on > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=curl&stype=all > > ... it says it requires "autoconf-2.13, automake-1.4, m4-1.4". It really > doesn't. It only requires those packages if you want to modify the makefiles > or the configure script, which most of the people who download curl have no > intention of doing. I believe the port patches the configure script and needs autoconf in order to rebuild them. The m4 is a second-level dependency of those ports. > If you *are* going to list what software that's needed to develop the > software, surely autoconf-2.13 and m4-1.4 should be present on almost every > package you have listed in the ports section. Only those where we need to regenerate the configure.in stuff, etc. > And more, curl 7.3 is out. Yep, thanks - someone else submitted this a few days ago, but I havent yet had time to upgrade it. > Thanks for doing a good job! Thanks for the feedback! Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message