Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 29 Mar 2022 13:07:04 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
To:        Charlie Li <vishwin@freebsd.org>
Cc:        ports-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-main@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: c35c6fc30a60 - main - textproc/libxslt: switch back to autotools
Message-ID:  <YkMEeAXlV7hr6s1z@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <202203291223.22TCN3Ow087123@gitrepo.freebsd.org>
References:  <202203291223.22TCN3Ow087123@gitrepo.freebsd.org>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 12:23:03PM +0000, Charlie Li wrote:
> commit c35c6fc30a60b1d106b032cc77affc0192fe132e
> 
>   textproc/libxslt: switch back to autotools
>     
>   Many ports use xsltproc as a BUILD_DEPENDS. CMake itself unconditionally
>   depends on ftp/curl, for which certain options can pull in dependencies
>   using xsltproc to build.

Thank you.  Let it be a good lesson for everyone who's thinking if replacing
[admittedly much hated] autotools with CMake is a good idea.  No, it is not.

./danfe



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?YkMEeAXlV7hr6s1z>