From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Dec 13 14:26:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from wwweasel.geeksrus.net (wwweasel.geeksrus.net [64.67.200.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 563CB37B419 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 14:26:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from alane@localhost) by wwweasel.geeksrus.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBDMNXq96496; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 17:23:33 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from alane) Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 17:23:33 -0500 From: Alan Eldridge To: Lev Serebryakov Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: autoconf 2.50 Message-ID: <20011213172333.A96484@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> References: <19794459125.20011214005824@serebryakov.spb.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <19794459125.20011214005824@serebryakov.spb.ru>; from lev@serebryakov.spb.ru on Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 12:58:24AM +0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 12:58:24AM +0300, Lev Serebryakov wrote: >Hello, ports! How are you? > > deve/autoconf port has 2.13-XXX version :( > And many programs want autoconf-2.50 already. > For example, I want to update icewm port to 1.0.9-2 version, and > icewm 1.0.9 needs autoconf-2.50. > > System has two identical ports now -- autoconf213 and autoconf. WHY? They are not identical. Same for automake. Make ports will not build using the newer versions. And don't say they should be updated/fixed ... to update KDE, for example, to use the newer versions would require a massive overhaul to an already too-complex build system. -- Alan Eldridge Just another $LANGUAGE hacker. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message