Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 22:53:42 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org>, Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com> Cc: portmgr@FreeBSD.org, arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Switch to newer AUTOCONF, and fixing ports Message-ID: <p05101010b7fd2df7277b@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20011024205654.E3080@FreeBSD.org> References: <200110242107.OAA09339@windsor.research.att.com> <20011024205654.E3080@FreeBSD.org>
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At 8:56 PM -0500 10/24/01, Ade Lovett wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 02:07:35PM -0700, Bill Fenner wrote:
>> My experience with newer autoconf a few months ago is that it is not
>> backwards-compatible, so we'd need to create a way to have multiple
>> autoconf versions installed.
>
>Ideally, we'd solve this with a separate testbed ports cluster, so we
>(portmgr) could drop in the new libtool/autoconf/etc.., get everything
>working, then drop it in to the real system.
>
>Unfortunately, that doesn't appear to be possible right now.
>
>However, given that 4.4 is out the door, 4.5 is some time away, and 5.x
>is just, well, 5.x, perhaps we should lay down a specific tag in the
>ports tree (or a firm date) for cvsup updates, flip the switch, then
>go through any issues associated with the new autoconf/libtool.
>
>Sure, initially there's likely to be huge breakage in the ports/ tree,
>but I don't see any alternatives, and right now, time is on our side.
This seems like a reasonable tactic to me, but I think you need to
make sure more people are aware of the proposal (and are comfortable
with it) before doing it. Thus, I have changed the subject line on
this message, and pointed it to a different combination of mailing
lists... This would also allow more people to come up with alternate
proposals.
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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