Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 21:10:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com> To: freebsd-ports Subject: Re: ports/3996: nmh needs dependecy on autoconfig to work. Message-ID: <199707010410.VAA06570@hub.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/3996; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com>
To: imp@village.org
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ports/3996: nmh needs dependecy on autoconfig to work.
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 20:59:17 -0700
imp@village.org wrote:
> nmh uses autoheader, which is part of autoconfig, which isn't
> installed by default
Is that dependency normal for packages that use the GNU autoconf? It only
really needs 'autoheader' if you modify some file that is input to autoconf.
Unfortunately the 'patch' process does that. I assume you try to do a 'make'
of the port and the patches happened fast enough to give the patched input
files the same update time as the output files, thus triggering the running of
'autoheader', right?
Is there a reasonable solution? I don't know if depending on autoconf is
quite right (as that would mean that every autoconf'd package should depend on
autoconf and autoconf is really for package developers, not package build or
install). Or maybe I should just patch that rule out of the Makefile
instead?
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