Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 10:44:19 -0500 From: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> To: David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/automake Makefile distinfo pkg-plist Message-ID: <20011025104418.Z25747@squall.waterspout.com> In-Reply-To: <20011025081956.G28706@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <XFMail.011024143149.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <3BD7C115.63F75C69@FreeBSD.org> <20011025081956.G28706@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 08:19:56AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > 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? Most of the time it's because using them makes for smaller patches in the ports tree. That's my experience anyway. -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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