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Date:      Wed, 13 Nov 2002 15:25:54 +0100 (MET)
From:      Paul Everlund <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se>
To:        AlanE <alane@geeksrus.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Ports List <ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Autoconf 2.54
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.44.0211131524410.8776-100000@kvist.cs.umu.se>
In-Reply-To: <20021113134411.GA45064@wwweasel.geeksrus.net>

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On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, AlanE wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 11:59:07AM +0100, Paul Everlund wrote:
> >Hi!
> >
> >As you are the maintainer of this port, do you know how long it will
> >be broken?
>
> Until I get time to do automake-1.7.whatthefuckever and it, and it's not
> that simple munging the info entries, etc.
>
> You still will have no (easy) way to tell your port to use it in
> port makefile until a change that I just made to the bsd.port.mk file
> gets put back in (in a modified form, most likely) as the builder of the
> DP2 ports was having some autoconf/automake related problems (which may
> or may not have been related to the patch) and reverted the commit.
>
> So as to port availablity, I'd guess a week or two, mod kde issues,
> since 3.1 is on its way or out now, and maybe 2-6 weeks for any kind of
> support in bsd.port.mk, if everything goes nicelyi (although it did
> take several months to get the patch in initially, I don't think it will
> be that long this time).
>
> >I just wonder out of curiousity, as the port I maintain are using new
> >autoconf, automake and libtool versions.
>
> The bottom line on it is, don't hold your breath. You'll turn blue and
> pass out.
>
> As for libtool, I don't maintain that, but I think I will grab it, but
> I'd expect any support for a new libtool to be a couple of months off.
>
> Sorry.

Thanks for your reply, and I'll try not to hold my breath. :-)

Best regards,
Paul


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