From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 16 22:39:11 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D48F1065673 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:39:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from swell.k@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iw0-f182.google.com (mail-iw0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 795D18FC1A for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:39:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn34 with SMTP id 34so1663164iwn.13 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:39:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:cc:subject:references :date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=KsUtgZMleeteKek5v01aFc1dM9E5kEl2XtYI7nD1kWs=; b=MxAsBNjaM8G4beAS0Dww8ENLstnVshRohvsEY2Hru+DXsiFHNTs+LvKqHyltrTugDl TFEo/Gewd2RUCAVa13ZXHZ8mqxzG/DVcxkMcbo2/DNnLmnhjGvxXmQrPMnndm2EnAtWR hgB4wV1qKufTLUVz7S2S5wZGi7+W1v4QS4tow= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=wtrRvAzwUzEnP44i3sQOonHxxPf4OMolJVOjEb8F12pOaNjvEWfRxA2ZomeHz/t2IN NvJIOeJ9VydTfCJ3BrE1xYqNwu1n9nr/J+jnw3Kj3gEQX190VXMp9AmFzDUt80ckw6s7 3vF+9VwtoEGHJFohKrBCkQOkS+pqppktqpOg4= Received: by 10.231.154.73 with SMTP id n9mr4219882ibw.10.1284676749800; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:39:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (tor-exit-proxy7-readme.formlessnetworking.net [208.53.142.43]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e12sm2809257iba.18.2010.09.16.15.39.07 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:39:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Anonymous To: Dominic Fandrey References: <4C91446F.3090202@bsdforen.de> <20100916171744.GA48415@hades.panopticon> <4C927ED0.5050307@bsdforen.de> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 02:35:41 +0400 In-Reply-To: <4C927ED0.5050307@bsdforen.de> (Dominic Fandrey's message of "Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:32:16 +0200") Message-ID: <86zkvhfhaa.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Dmitry Marakasov , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: autoconf update X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:39:11 -0000 Dominic Fandrey writes: > On 16/09/2010 19:17, Dmitry Marakasov wrote: >> * Dominic Fandrey (kamikaze@bsdforen.de) wrote: >> >>> Just out of curiosity, why a version bump because of a build >>> dependency? >>> >>> I don't think an autoconf update should have an effect on any >>> /running/ software but build systems. And I don't see how rebuilding >>> all the software improves it. >>> >>> This is not a criticism - I just think there is something I don't >>> understand and that worries me. My guess is to uncover *early* build failures that exp-run didn't catch. Example is the breakage of databases/postgresql84-server + WITH_ICU. >> I second the question. Revision bump seem absolutely unnecessary. > > There was the sweeping commit reason in another thread. > > But I don't really think it would have been a sweeping commit if > it weren't for the version bump. Did you forget that autoconf262 was removed?