From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 12 15:45:22 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 487B737B401 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 15:45:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-150.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 882CF43FAF for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 15:45:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5448C66CFB; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 15:45:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3DBF4E47; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 15:45:21 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 15:45:21 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Dan Naumov Message-ID: <20030412224521.GB89129@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20030412232452.0d05600b.dan.naumov@ofw.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="IrhDeMKUP4DT/M7F" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030412232452.0d05600b.dan.naumov@ofw.fi> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 22:45:22 -0000 --IrhDeMKUP4DT/M7F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 11:24:52PM +0300, Dan Naumov wrote: > Hello >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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... That's precisely what we're working on, but it is NOT an easy job! ade@ is taking care of this. We worked on this a lot before 4.8, but there were still several ports that did bizarre things that we couldn't get to work. I haven't heard from Ade in a few days about the latest progress on this. Kris --IrhDeMKUP4DT/M7F Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+mJcAWry0BWjoQKURAn47AJ95lxm+NcnsAXBAEt3LZBl4xN9ecQCgn8ar gFq0x0TQsaGw3Zld3g3O7kI= =kRmF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IrhDeMKUP4DT/M7F--