From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 10 16:37:22 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 0A46916A4BF; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 16:37:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx2.fillmore-labs.com (lima.fillmore-labs.com [62.138.193.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38B7143F75; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 16:37:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com) Received: from p5080bae4.dip.t-dialin.net ([80.128.186.228] helo=fillmore-labs.com ident=i0duoflf36fo3sly) by mx2.fillmore-labs.com with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.22) id 19xEWW-00085n-4R; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 01:37:20 +0200 Message-ID: <3F5FB5AC.5080403@fillmore-labs.com> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 01:37:16 +0200 From: Oliver Eikemeier MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ade Lovett References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authenticated-Sender: eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com User-Agent: KMail/1.5.9 Organization: Fillmore Labs GmbH X-Complaints-To: abuse@fillmore-labs.com 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 23:37:22 -0000 Ade Lovett wrote: > 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... Ok, I'm interested to see what breaks. The autoconf 2.5.7 patches in PR 54254 should be harmless, though. Is there anything about bsd.components.mk on the net or is it just the latest-and-greatest-super-secret-FreeBSD-enhancement-project?