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From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>
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Subject: Re: [RFC]: m4 update
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On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Roman Divacky wrote:

> hi
>
> I made a patch that updates our in-tree m4 to the version from OpenBSD.
> Their version contains some gnu extensions and generally is modernized
> and rewritten.
>
> The patch (you have to in src/usr.bin/m4 for it to apply):
>
>
> 	http://vlakno.cz/~rdivacky/m4.patch
>
>
> I added their ohash* implementation to the m4 subdir as it uses it. I
> am not sure this is the correct way but it works for now.
>
> So the question is - do we want this at all? If so, is this the way we
> want it?
>
> I am open to all comments, thank you!

The only comment I have at this point is that this is a huge update to
a somewhat fragile tool.  It'll need a lot of testing before it should
be comitted this way;  not sure how many ports use this rather than gm4
or if they could be switched over after that.  I'd at least ask portmgr
for an exp run.

/bz

-- 
Bjoern A. Zeeb         It will not break if you know what you are doing.