Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:54:32 -0600 From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> To: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] GNU make 3.82 Message-ID: <20110310235432.GA11144@lonesome.com> In-Reply-To: <883EDE8E-309A-497B-A9ED-2350AC1D2546@FreeBSD.org> References: <488C7790-D3E2-4441-BEC8-DD26D8917181@freebsd.org> <4D792578.6000303@FreeBSD.org> <2B21F26B-D7EA-480B-BFA2-BD12DDDB7721@FreeBSD.org> <4D7932AC.1020508@FreeBSD.org> <883EDE8E-309A-497B-A9ED-2350AC1D2546@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mar 10, 2011, at 14:21 , Doug Barton wrote:
> I admire your optimism, however experience tells us that once these
> types of accomodations get into the tree, they stay there for a long
> time.
Here's what I have on my system:
devel/autoconf
devel/autoconf213
devel/automake
devel/automake14
devel/autotools
devel/libtool
(That's not counting the -wrapper convenience ports.)
So: one antiquated version each of autoconf and automake.
$ dependson autoconf-2.1 | wc -l
73
$ dependson autoconf | wc -l
910
$ dependson automake-1.4 | wc -l
31
$ dependson automake | wc -l
325
('dependson' is just a script that greps INDEX.)
Summary: there used to be a lot of auto* ports. There aren't, now.
Anyone interested in looking through the sordid details can find them at
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/devel/ .
mcl
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