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Subject: Re: autoconf - upgrade to 2.6.*?
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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

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