From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Nov 13 6:26: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7416B37B401 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 06:26:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from grillolja.cs.umu.se (grillolja.cs.umu.se [130.239.40.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 407A343E75 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 06:26:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tdv94ped@cs.umu.se) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by amavisd-new (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20060A014; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 15:25:59 +0100 (MET) Received: from kvist.cs.umu.se (kvist.cs.umu.se [130.239.40.192]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by grillolja.cs.umu.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7668A00A; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 15:25:56 +0100 (MET) Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 15:25:54 +0100 (MET) From: Paul Everlund To: AlanE Cc: FreeBSD Ports List Subject: Re: Autoconf 2.54 In-Reply-To: <20021113134411.GA45064@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new amavisd-new-20020630 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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