From owner-cvs-all Thu Oct 25 8:20: 4 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEC9A37B401; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 08:19:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id f9PFJu729500; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 08:19:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 08:19:56 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Maxim Sobolev Cc: John Baldwin , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/automake Makefile distinfo pkg-plist Message-ID: <20011025081956.G28706@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <3BD7C115.63F75C69@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3BD7C115.63F75C69@FreeBSD.org>; from sobomax@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 10:36:53AM +0300 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 10:36:53AM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > Errm, IMO, it would make more sense to do this in the way David > > proposed letting the auto* ports take on the new version and making > > the auto*XX ports use the old one, then just fix any breakages that > > come up. Doesn't bento do automated builds of the packages? Just > > commit the changes, let the builds go through, and fix the errors > > that pop up. We don't have a release real soon, so it should be > > livable. > > Are you going to reply to those zillion "hey port XX broke > because of auto*" PR, which will surely pop up if we do as > you suggest? Maybe. How can anyone say anything until someone makes a list of what breaks. I want to know why so many ports are using autoconf and automake rather than used the included Makefile.in and configure. Are ports that use the GNU build system using autoconf+automake just because they are there? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message