From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Mar 6 5:44: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.36.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30FEA14DF1; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 05:44:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au) Received: from bragg (bragg [129.127.36.34]) by adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8/UofA-1.5) with SMTP id AAA17457; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 00:13:37 +1030 (CST) Received: from localhost by bragg; (5.65/1.1.8.2/05Aug95-0227PM) id AA08735; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 00:13:36 +1030 Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 00:13:35 +1030 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway X-Sender: kkennawa@bragg To: Jeremy Lea Cc: Satoshi Asami , garyj@muc.de, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: all those .la files In-Reply-To: <19990304172534.C85737@shale.csir.co.za> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Jeremy Lea wrote: > > That way we only need to fix one broken port instead of dozens, no? :) > > Yes, that was Kris's plan, which I'm beginning to like more and more... > I haven't looked at it yet, but if most ports are using libtool.m4 -> > aclocal.m4 -> configure, then we might be able to get away with > 'patching' via a sed script in bsd.port.mk (as a post-patch target), > rather than patching 20 million configures. Yep, that should work. All the ones I've done seem to have exactly the same format, so could be updated automatically via sed as you suggest. Kris ----- (ASP) Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) announced today that the release of its productivity suite, Office 2000, will be delayed until the first quarter of 1901. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message