Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 18:16:35 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@magnesium.net> To: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Proposed rework of autotools call structure from port Makefiles Message-ID: <42B22473.3000001@magnesium.net> In-Reply-To: <42B21E9D.80709@FreeBSD.org> References: <42B21E9D.80709@FreeBSD.org>
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Ade Lovett wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm currently working on something of a rewrite to the way in which > ports/ Makefiles will make use of the build-time autotools (libtool, > autoconf, automake, and friends). > > The short document is available as: > > http://people.FreeBSD.org/~ade/autotools.html > > If y'all could look over this, particularly if you're a maintainer who > makes heavy use of autotools (that means you, GNOME folks :), and > provide feedback, I'd really appreciate it. > > Thanks, > -aDe Sweet! This change is overdue and quite welcome! Is specifying the exact versions always necessary? Is it possible to examine a configure.in or something to determine the version of libtool/auto* needed, and then run that? That would also help with things like the recent libtool13->libtool15 sweep, if one could just define USE_AUTOTOOLS=autoconf and the build system could intuit the rest. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger adamw@magnesium.net || adamw@FreeBSD.org adamw@vectors.cx || adamw@gnome.org http://www.vectors.cx
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