Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 13:48:04 +0300 From: Lev Serebryakov <lev@serebryakov.spb.ru> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Reasons for USE_AUTOCONF/USE_AUTOMAKE usage? Message-ID: <1391185187.20021210134804@serebryakov.spb.ru>
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Hello, freebsd-ports! How are you?
Why so many ports declare, that they use autoconf/automake, and,
via them, perl5?
Many programs compiles fine with bundled `configure'. and
`Makefile.in' files and could be compiled without any perl5! Is here
reason to re-generate these files before build? As Far As I
understand, auto* tools is not requirement for many programs, which
ports declare, that it need auto* tools.
perl5 is not present in 5.0 base system, but I could not imagine
installation, which will not use any ports with USE_AUTO* variables
defined, so perl5 will be installed from ports (5.8.0, I think) on
virtually all 5.0 systems... Only some routers, DNS servers and so
on will live without it, I think...
Lev Serebryakov
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