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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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