Date: 25 Oct 2002 21:48:38 -0700 From: John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com> To: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: libtool-1.4 upgrade? Message-ID: <1035607719.431.16.camel@PC016247.reshall.uidaho.edu> In-Reply-To: <004601c27ca8$fe339ae0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <004601c27ca8$fe339ae0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
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Updating libtool is non-trivial. Screw up, even trivially, and hundreds
of ports in the tree are instantly broken. For this reason, this port
is portmgr property.
jmc
On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 21:34, Matthew Emmerton wrote:
> 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
>
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