Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 02:01:17 -0800 From: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/Mk bsd.autotools.mk Message-ID: <68CE3139-BC83-455E-943C-66C2A525E351@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <86y7zcf33v.fsf@xps.des.no> References: <200602231043.k1NAhYlr080084@repoman.freebsd.org> <86irqpwy35.fsf@xps.des.no> <C7DB396E-DEC9-4990-A7DA-499D5285344F@FreeBSD.org> <86lkvi8ynb.fsf@xps.des.no> <1CBF3284-9303-4C26-B96E-4FF1C8EF30A0@FreeBSD.org> <86veuhf9yz.fsf@xps.des.no> <BE4272DB-4866-4144-9EAC-7B1AF5F50E06@FreeBSD.org> <86y7zcf33v.fsf@xps.des.no>
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On Mar 15, 2006, at 01:51 , Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> libtool.m4, actually. devel/gnu-libtool installs it:
So? devel/gnu-libtool was not touched by this change, nor, indeed, =20
were any of the devel/gnu-* autotools.
> Compare and contrast what happens with the old gnu-libtool installed:
Again, devel/gnu-libtool was *not* changed.
> The great majority of ports don't use aclocal, because the tarballs
> ship with pre-generated aclocal and configure scripts. If you didn't
> already know and understand that, you have no business messing with
> the autotool ports.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I have forgotten more about =20
how libtool/autoconf/automake interact than most people will ever know.
> This is not a religious argument. It's a very simple technical
> argument: the GNU autotools used to work, now they don't.
Given that devel/gnu-{libtool,autoconf,automake} haven't been =20
changed, I fail to understand what the problem is here. Of course, =20
if you're mixing and matching the gnu- prefixed tools with the ports =20
tools, then things are very likely to break. There's a big banner =20
comment in bsd.autotools.mk, and the gnu-* ports, about that. Caveat =20=
emptor.
-aDe
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