From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Oct 25 0:50:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ipcard.iptcom.net (ipcard.iptcom.net [212.9.224.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B363737B405; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 00:50:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vega.vega.com (h124.229.dialup.iptcom.net [212.9.229.124]) by ipcard.iptcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA47507; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 10:49:58 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Received: from FreeBSD.org (big_brother.vega.com [192.168.1.1]) by vega.vega.com (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f9P7nRU16963; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 10:49:27 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <3BD7C487.E994955B@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 10:51:35 +0300 From: Maxim Sobolev Organization: Vega International Capital X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,uk,ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Fenner Cc: drosih@rpi.edu, ade@FreeBSD.org, portmgr@FreeBSD.org, arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Switch to newer AUTOCONF, and fixing ports References: <200110242107.OAA09339@windsor.research.att.com> <20011024205654.E3080@FreeBSD.org> <200110250527.WAA14597@windsor.research.att.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Fenner wrote: > > I wrote a script that does "make configure" on all USE_AUTOCONF ports > with autoconf 2.52 installed; it's only gotten to japanese/esecanna-mod > but 48 out of 94 ports have failed. This includes 15 on which it was > the "./configure" run itself that failed, so it's only 33 that failed > on the autoconf step; the other 15 need more examination to determine > if it's my host environment or the new autoconf that caused the failure. > > (It will try with 2.13.000227 next; presumably those results will be > available in the morning.) > > Don't forget that this 33% failure rate will affect people who use > FreeBSD to develop other software too. e.g. tcpdump, libpcap, tcpslice, > all fail either autoheader or autoconf with 2.52. It's also non-obvious > in some circumstances how to write autoconf scripts that work both with > 2.13 and 2.52. Very representative statistics, thank you Bill. That's why I think that additional automakeXX/autoconfYY representing newest versions is only the one way to go. -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message