From owner-cvs-all Wed Oct 24 14: 4:59 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from ipcard.iptcom.net (ipcard.iptcom.net [212.9.224.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 320C637B401; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 14:04:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from notebook.vega.com (h219.229.dialup.iptcom.net [212.9.229.219]) by ipcard.iptcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA93434; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 00:04:35 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <200110242104.AAA93434@ipcard.iptcom.net> To: obrien@FreeBSD.org Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org From: Maxim Sobolev Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/automake Makefile distinfo pkg-plist ports/devel/automake/files patch-ab patch-ad X-Mailer: Pygmy (v0.5.13) Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 00:04:30 EEST In-Reply-To: <20011024124641.A506@dragon.nuxi.com> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 12:46:41 -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > [portmgr CC'ed due to importancy of this port to the overall ports > infrastructure] > > You did not address your plans on when/how this port will return to 1.5. > We cannot put our head in the sand on this one (unlink libtool, this does > included new applicable functionality). > > Please list the ports that broke so they may be addressed. Many of the > ports that depend on automake probably really don't in truth need it. > Any package that uses Makefile.am+automake is suppose to supply a built > Makefile.in. > > Automake 1.5 is now needed for Binutils and GCC work, so are we either > need an upgrade plan, or an "automake-current" port. Actually, automake > should return to 1.5, and an automake14 port created (via repo copy). > The ports that cannot handle 1.5 can use the outdated version. The main problem here is that we don't have a way to reliable create a list of packages that can't work with newest automake/autoconf. Bento is still locked and only the one person who holds the keys is Satoshi. And I don't think that the problem is as fatal as you described, you (and any other maintainer with the similar problem) have at least two relatively simple workarounds: 1. Do a repo-copy and create a new automakeXX/autoconfXX ports, which will contain newest version of autocrap. Then you can use it as much as you like, without disturbing anybody. 2. Pre-create Makefile.in/configure with the whatever version of autocrap you favorite port requires and then add those files as patches in the FILESDIR or PATCHFILE at the MASTER_SITE_LOCAL. This is even simpler than (1). Actually the vendor of the code should be slapped over head for supplying distfile without those files, but that's a different story... -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message