From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 10 16:22:41 2003 Return-Path: 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 C105416A4BF for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 16:22:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.lovett.com (sentinel.ranger.supernews.net [216.168.1.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DCC143FBD for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 16:22:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ade@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 44ba06102.mdfrd.or.charter.com ([68.186.6.102] helo=FreeBSD.org) by mail.lovett.com with asmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19xEIL-000B37-13; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 23:22:41 +0000 Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 16:22:40 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) To: Oliver Eikemeier From: Ade Lovett In-Reply-To: <3F5FB0F2.5080602@fillmore-labs.com> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: REMINDER: Ports freeze starts tomorrow! X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 23:22:41 -0000 On Wednesday, Sep 10, 2003, at 16:17 US/Pacific, Oliver Eikemeier wrote: > > They are not a great improvement, but at least we can > use autoconf 2.5.7 in a portable way and libtool 1.3 > is installing libraries correctly. Something (I forget what) broke rather badly with one or other of the patches, possibly an artefact of something else in /src/ports-i-love-libtool/* on my devel box. I've been stuck in $REALJOB hell for a while, so haven't really had a chance to track down what went wrong, but I'm kinda worried about putting those patches in before 4.9, when the whole lot is in the process of a getting a major facelift (COMPONENTS="..." and bsd.components.mk -- from an irc conversation a while back). If there's time, and portmgr@ is willing to commit to a 4-exp build with just those two patches in to see what breaks, then go for it... -aDe