From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Dec 10 5:10:20 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 EBB7137B401 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 05:10:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from shale.csir.co.za (shale.csir.co.za [146.64.46.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BF3343E4A for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 05:10:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from reg@shale.csir.co.za) Received: (from reg@localhost) by shale.csir.co.za (8.11.6/8.11.6) id gBAD8ON12915; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 15:08:24 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from reg) Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 15:08:23 +0200 From: Jeremy Lea To: Lev Serebryakov Cc: Edwin Groothuis , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reasons for USE_AUTOCONF/USE_AUTOMAKE usage? Message-ID: <20021210130823.GA12089@shale.csir.co.za> Mail-Followup-To: Jeremy Lea , Lev Serebryakov , Edwin Groothuis , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG References: <1391185187.20021210134804@serebryakov.spb.ru> <20021210112916.GO50581@k7.mavetju> <1356964125.20021210152423@serebryakov.spb.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1356964125.20021210152423@serebryakov.spb.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 Hi, On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 03:24:23PM +0300, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > 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! Normally the reason is that the patches are easier too do on configure.in rather than configure. I personally prefer the procedure of having a patch for configure.in, and maintainer running with USE_AUTOCONF, then generating a patch for configure, and updating both in the port. But that's a lot more work for the maintainer. Anyway, if you use more than a few ports you are normally forced into requiring perl, autoconf, automake, gmake, etc. So why make life more difficult for the maintainer. Regards, -Jeremy -- FreeBSD - Because the best things in life are free... http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message