From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Dec 10 2:47:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D4E437B401 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 02:47:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from ftp.translate.ru (ftp.translate.ru [195.131.4.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0917443ED1 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 02:47:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lev@serebryakov.spb.ru) Received: from lev (ip50-205.dialup.wplus.net [195.131.50.205]) (authenticated bits=0) by ftp.translate.ru (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gBAAkuCE098213 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 13:46:57 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from lev@serebryakov.spb.ru) Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 13:48:04 +0300 From: Lev Serebryakov X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53d) Reply-To: Lev Serebryakov Organization: Home X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1391185187.20021210134804@serebryakov.spb.ru> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Reasons for USE_AUTOCONF/USE_AUTOMAKE usage? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, freebsd-ports! How are you? Why so many ports declare, that they use autoconf/automake, and, via them, perl5? Many programs compiles fine with bundled `configure'. and `Makefile.in' files and could be compiled without any perl5! Is here reason to re-generate these files before build? As Far As I understand, auto* tools is not requirement for many programs, which ports declare, that it need auto* tools. perl5 is not present in 5.0 base system, but I could not imagine installation, which will not use any ports with USE_AUTO* variables defined, so perl5 will be installed from ports (5.8.0, I think) on virtually all 5.0 systems... Only some routers, DNS servers and so on will live without it, I think... Lev Serebryakov /-----------------------------------------------\ | FIDONet: 2:5030/661.0 | | E-Mail: lev@serebryakov.spb.ru | | Page: http://lev.serebryakov.spb.ru/ | | ICQ UIN: 3670018 | | Phone: You know, if you have world nodelist | \===============================================/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message