Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 09:12:05 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Matthew Soffen <msoffen@iso-ne.com> Cc: kris@obsecurity.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: automake19-1.9.5 Message-ID: <20050519161204.GB87697@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <1116517862.5492.15.camel@msoffen.iso-ne.com> References: <1116344389.10339.42.camel@msoffen.iso-ne.com> <20050518161015.GA94920@xor.obsecurity.org> <1116439290.4769.9.camel@msoffen.iso-ne.com> <20050519105216.dt9hta6z28k4o48g@netchild.homeip.net> <20050519160428.25a1e630.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> <1116511949.4994.27.camel@msoffen.iso-ne.com> <790a9fff05051907418391836@mail.gmail.com> <1116517862.5492.15.camel@msoffen.iso-ne.com>
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On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 11:51:02AM -0400, Matthew Soffen wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 09:41 -0500, Scot Hetzel wrote:
>=20
> > On 5/19/05, Matthew Soffen <msoffen@iso-ne.com> wrote:
> > > I am curious though, why did FreeBSD ports use things like automake19
> > > instead of the way Linux does it with automake-1.9 ?
> > >=20
> > Probably because we thought of it first, and Linux tried to improve on =
it. ;-)
>=20
>=20
> Then there is one more thing you need to "improve" too.=20
>=20
> Some of the tools do things where they rebuild *.am files , the tools
> are looking for automake-{VER} ,
>=20
> That probably should be patched to use automake19 instead of
> automake-1.9, yes ?
If it would cause enough net simplification, maybe. It's a lot of
work to convert ports over though, so someone needs to want it enough
to do that work :-)
Kris
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