From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 12 13:20:47 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 02C6F37B401 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 13:20:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MAILSERVER.ofw.fi (ns.ofw.fi [194.111.144.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E16543FBF for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 13:20:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan.naumov@ofw.fi) Received: from [172.16.161.81] by MAILSERVER.ofw.fi (NTMail 7.00.0022/NT1439.00.90501b21) with ESMTP id havgjaaa for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 23:19:42 +0300 Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 23:24:52 +0300 From: Dan Naumov To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20030412232452.0d05600b.dan.naumov@ofw.fi> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.11 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Status of Libtool 1.4.x ? 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: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 20:20:47 -0000 Hello I was wondering what is the status of the libtool 1.4 port ? I recall the the initial PR was submitted many months ago and with Libtool 1.4 having been released an entire YEAR ago, more and more programs now depend on it. Due to this, many ports in the ports tree can no longer be updated until the new Libtool goes in. I already recall someone was complaining he was no longer able to update the ports he was maintaining because of this and the CVS of my favourite game (games/quakeforge) has long ago moved to libtool 1.4 too. A quick search through the PR database shows that the libtool maintainer was supposed to "look at it prior to 4.8-release" but now 4.8 is out and I still see no working libtool 1.4 port. If so much testing is needed to ensure the current ports don't break, isn't it possible to make the libtool port work in the same way as multiple versions of automake and autoconf do ? At least that's what Linux distribution vendors seem to do and it seems to work well enough... Sincerely, -- Dan Naumov