From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jul 1 07:12:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA01170 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 07:12:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cliffy.statsci.com (root@cliffy.statsci.com [206.63.206.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA01164 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 07:12:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from plum.statsci.com (plum [206.63.206.43]) by cliffy.statsci.com (8.8.6/8.8.6/Hub) with SMTP id HAA30697; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 07:12:25 -0700 Received: from plum.statsci.com [206.63.206.43] with smtp by plum.statsci.com with smtp (/\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.3 #3) id m0wj3fM-0007RRC; Tue, 1 Jul 97 07:12 PDT Message-Id: To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) cc: freebsd-ports@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/3996: nmh needs dependecy on autoconfig to work. References: <199707010910.CAA20283@hub.freebsd.org> In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 01 Jul 1997 02:10:03 -0700." <199707010910.CAA20283@hub.freebsd.org> From: Scott Blachowicz Reply-to: scott@statsci.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <18683.867766343.1@plum.statsci.com> Date: Tue, 01 Jul 1997 07:12:23 -0700 Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) wrote: > * : Is that dependency normal for packages that use the GNU autoconf? > * > * I think so. > > I think you guys may not be talking about the same thing. If you want > to use GNU autoconf to regenerate the "configure" script from > "configure.in", you will need a BUILD_DEPENDS line to devel/autoconf. The port doesn't NEED to regenerate anything - it just has the Makefile rules to do so. The patches/ directory has patches to both the autoconf input and output files. I think it's just a timing thing that ends up causing 'make' to think that the output file needs to be regenerated. Also, I believe that the pending patch (ports/3992) to the port ought to fix the problem (as well as updating the version of nmh supported by the port). Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div) 1700 Westlake Ave N #500 scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109 Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org