Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 15:24:23 +0300 From: Lev Serebryakov <lev@serebryakov.spb.ru> To: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re[2]: Reasons for USE_AUTOCONF/USE_AUTOMAKE usage? Message-ID: <1356964125.20021210152423@serebryakov.spb.ru> In-Reply-To: <20021210112916.GO50581@k7.mavetju> References: <1391185187.20021210134804@serebryakov.spb.ru> <20021210112916.GO50581@k7.mavetju>
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Hello, Edwin!
Tuesday, December 10, 2002, 2:29:16 PM, you wrote:
>> 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
EG> A part of autoconf253 (actually, autom4te) is a perl-script, so a
EG> lot of ports have USE_PERL5=yes in their Makefile if they use
EG> autoconf.
I know it. It is not answer on my question.
My question is: why so many ports USE autoconf?
`configure' script and other RESULTS of work of `autoconf' package
is BUNDLED with sources and could be used WITHOUT `autoconf' (and
`autom4te') to produce proper `Makefile' and `config.h'. So, IMHO,
here is no need to use _autoconf _ (not `configure' script, but
`autocnf' itself) in MANY ports. Of course, some of these ports
really need autoconf, because doesn't contain `configure' or other
generated parts of this framework in source tarball), but why SO
MANY?
For example, `deverl/libedit' could be build WITHOUT autoconf:
supplied scripts & templates woks fine (and only version of shared
library is changed)! Binary results is SAME!
Lev Serebryakov
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