Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 14:42:28 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/automake Makefile distinfo pkg-plist ports/devel/automake/files patch-ab patch-ad Message-ID: <20011024144228.C12307@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <200110242104.AAA93434@ipcard.iptcom.net>; from sobomax@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 12:04:30AM %2B0300 References: <20011024124641.A506@dragon.nuxi.com> <200110242104.AAA93434@ipcard.iptcom.net>
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On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 12:04:30AM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > 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. We update the port, wait for Satoshi to make a build run (you must have seen one to know some ports broke). > Bento is still locked and only the one person who holds the keys is > Satoshi. Core says Steve Price also has a door key. > 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, cvs@ refused to do repo copies of this nature any more. > 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. I am not using this in port building -- I am using automake+autoconf the way it was intended to be used -- by developers of software. > Actually the vendor of the code should be slapped over head for > supplying distfile without those files, but that's a different > story... They *DO*, but I am changing Makefile.am and configure.in and I MUST generate new Makefile.in & configure before I can check my changes into the FSF GCC & Binutils repo -- exactly so that your believe that vendors supply those generated files happens. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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