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Date:      Thu, 10 Oct 2024 22:46:35 +0300
From:      Gleb Popov <arrowd@freebsd.org>
To:        Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com>
Cc:        ports-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-all@freebsd.org,  dev-commits-ports-main@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: 0bdf5887f0d2 - main - graphics/tiff: Update to 4.7.0 and switch to CMake
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On Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 10:43 PM Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com> wrote:
>
> From a packager's view it is
> nearly ideal for historical interial reasons and one key point:  the
> thing that Autoconf gets right is being centered around feature test
> macros and most alternative build systems miss that point and center
> around preconceived notions of what a platform is or has.

Until the packager has to patch silly Linux-centric macro. Then it
becomes a nightmare, at least for me.


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