Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 00:34:37 -0400 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: libtool-1.4 upgrade? Message-ID: <004601c27ca8$fe339ae0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
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I noticed that we're still using libtool-1.3.4 which is quite dated (December 1999 - almost 3 years old!) There are many known incompatibilities between libtool-1.3 and autoconf-2.95, including autoconf's use of cache_file=/dev/null which causes libtool-1.3.4 to die immediately. It appears 'ade@freebsd.org' has recently dropped maintainership of the libtool port, so I'd like to pick up the maintainership of the port and handle the migration to libtool-1.4. I'd like to propose the following plan for migrating, which IIRC is similar to how the migration between autoconf 2.13 and 2.95 was handled. 1) Add a libtool14 port, containing libtool-1.4 (and at a later date, libtool-1.4.[123]). This will allow people to test their ports with libtool14 and submit feedback to me. 2) Once the majority of ports work fine with libtool14, do the repocopy of 'libtool' -> 'libtool13' and 'libtool14' to 'libtool', thus making libtool14 the default. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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