From owner-cvs-all Thu Oct 25 8:45:43 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from squall.waterspout.com (squall.waterspout.com [208.13.56.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E97037B436; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 08:45:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by squall.waterspout.com (Postfix, from userid 1050) id 1DF539B08; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 10:44:19 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 10:44:19 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: David O'Brien Cc: Maxim Sobolev , John Baldwin , 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> Reply-To: Will Andrews Mail-Followup-To: David O'Brien , Maxim Sobolev , John Baldwin , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org References: <3BD7C115.63F75C69@FreeBSD.org> <20011025081956.G28706@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011025081956.G28706@dragon.nuxi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i 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 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