From owner-cvs-all Thu Oct 25 9: 6:37 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 A815E37B403; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 09:06:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id f9PG6KL30247; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 09:06:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 09:06:19 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira 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: <20011025090619.B29809@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <3BD7C115.63F75C69@FreeBSD.org> <20011025081956.G28706@dragon.nuxi.com> <20011025135404.A2336@exxodus.fedaykin.here> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011025135404.A2336@exxodus.fedaykin.here>; from lioux@uol.com.br on Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 01:54:04PM -0200 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 01:54:04PM -0200, Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira wrote: > 1) for some reason, the distfile (not the port) USES auto{conf,make} > during configure/build process. Some developers want to do things > dynamically This can often be fixed with "touch configure Makefile.in". I do this in the GCC ports. There is a small race condition when Makefile.am and Makefile.in have the same date (and Makefile.in is still up to date). > 2) patching *.in *.am files sometimes is CLEANER, easier to > understand and (of course) smaller than patching .in files. In all the 135 ports I've maintained I've never seen that. Can you please expand? > Furthermore, sometimes it is not possible to patch Makefile.in files, > since they might get re-generated during build (check (1)) See my response to (1). -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message