Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:52:20 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Jakob Breivik Grimstveit <jakob@grimstveit.no>, ade@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: autoconf - upgrade to 2.6.*? Message-ID: <20061121215220.GA91803@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20061121235912.b63f36f1.stas@FreeBSD.org> References: <loom.20061121T192943-25@post.gmane.org> <20061121235912.b63f36f1.stas@FreeBSD.org>
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--45Z9DzgjV8m4Oswq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 11:59:12PM +0300, Stanislav Sedov wrote: > On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:35:39 +0000 (UTC) > Jakob Breivik Grimstveit <jakob@grimstveit.no> mentioned: >=20 > > I see now that we've had autoconf at version 2.59 since 15mar05 [1]. 26= June > > this year v2.60 was released [2], and not long ago v2.6.1 was released = as well > > (17 Nov). > > > > I assume it will be a big task to accomplish this, but is there any pla= ns > > regarding to make v2.6.x available via the ports tree? > > > > Many new applications today require the 2.6 series of autoconf, and it = would be > > great to be able to use ports versions of this program instead of insta= lling it > > by hand. > > > > If this already has been discussed (which I could not find), I apologiz= e. > > > > Thanks in advance, guys and gals! > > >=20 > AFAIK, the update is already planned, and ade@ will update it soon. > After this update, we'll have only a single version of > autoconf/automake in ports, no more gnu-* versions of these utils. First I've heard of it ;-) Given the usual (and largely unavoidable) difficulties of auto* updates we'll of course want to test it on pointyhat first. Kris --45Z9DzgjV8m4Oswq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFY3UUWry0BWjoQKURAlVGAJ4lmDFi51e0Zg7rBXuqTlQm79EUMQCglevC 1kwNZh60pxSsLlIHm8FPs8I= =4CrH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --45Z9DzgjV8m4Oswq--
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