Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 14:26:43 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Lev Serebryakov <lev@serebryakov.spb.ru> Cc: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reasons for USE_AUTOCONF/USE_AUTOMAKE usage? Message-ID: <20021210222643.GE43097@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <1356964125.20021210152423@serebryakov.spb.ru> References: <1391185187.20021210134804@serebryakov.spb.ru> <20021210112916.GO50581@k7.mavetju> <1356964125.20021210152423@serebryakov.spb.ru>
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--dFWYt1i2NyOo1oI9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 03:24:23PM +0300, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > Hello, Edwin! > Tuesday, December 10, 2002, 2:29:16 PM, you wrote: >=20 > >> Why so many ports declare, that they use autoconf/automake, and, > >> via them, perl5? > >>>=20 > >> Many programs compiles fine with bundled `configure'. and > >> `Makefile.in' files and could be compiled without any perl5! Is here > EG> A part of autoconf253 (actually, autom4te) is a perl-script, so a > EG> lot of ports have USE_PERL5=3Dyes in their Makefile if they use > EG> autoconf. > I know it. It is not answer on my question. > My question is: why so many ports USE autoconf? In many cases the bundled script does not work in all cases. In other cases the script needs to be patched, and it's better to patch the .in version because the vendor is likely to accept the fix back. Kris --dFWYt1i2NyOo1oI9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE99moiWry0BWjoQKURArIBAKDW//+n19oeLp/9EwsHsuXLeKffRACfQ/6G NW2ItWD5Hn6mnCG2XGihB/s= =bdGD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --dFWYt1i2NyOo1oI9-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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