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On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 06:14:44PM +0800, Kevin Leung wrote:
> Hi
>=20
> I am porting a new program which requires autoconf258 or greater. I have=
=20
> looked into <bsd.port.mk> and found that the devel autoconf version is=20
> set to 257. I think we need to remove the 257 "barrier".
>=20
> Could somebody please look into that?

Already in progress.  Upgrading auto* ports are exceedingly difficult
because they are typically not backwards compatibile and therefore
break a lot of software.

Kris

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