Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 09:06:19 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira <lioux@uol.com.br> Cc: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/automake Makefile distinfo pkg-plist Message-ID: <20011025090619.B29809@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20011025135404.A2336@exxodus.fedaykin.here>; from lioux@uol.com.br on Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 01:54:04PM -0200 References: <XFMail.011024143149.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <3BD7C115.63F75C69@FreeBSD.org> <20011025081956.G28706@dragon.nuxi.com> <20011025135404.A2336@exxodus.fedaykin.here>
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On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 01:54:04PM -0200, Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira wrote:
> 1) for some reason, the distfile (not the port) USES auto{conf,make}
> during configure/build process. Some developers want to do things
> dynamically
This can often be fixed with "touch configure Makefile.in".
I do this in the GCC ports. There is a small race condition when
Makefile.am and Makefile.in have the same date (and Makefile.in is still
up to date).
> 2) patching *.in *.am files sometimes is CLEANER, easier to
> understand and (of course) smaller than patching .in files.
In all the 135 ports I've maintained I've never seen that. Can you
please expand?
> Furthermore, sometimes it is not possible to patch Makefile.in files,
> since they might get re-generated during build (check (1))
See my response to (1).
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