From owner-cvs-all Wed Oct 24 13:11:30 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 38E1B37B401; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 13:11:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by squall.waterspout.com (Postfix, from userid 1050) id 37E809B08; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 15:10:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 15:10:25 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: David O'Brien Cc: Maxim Sobolev , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/automake Makefile distinfo pkg-plist ports/devel/automake/files patch-ab patch-ad Message-ID: <20011024151025.S25747@squall.waterspout.com> Reply-To: Will Andrews Mail-Followup-To: David O'Brien , Maxim Sobolev , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org References: <200110080724.f987O7620498@freefall.freebsd.org> <20011024124641.A506@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011024124641.A506@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 Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 12:46:41PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > [portmgr CC'ed due to importancy of this port to the overall ports > infrastructure] > > You did not address your plans on when/how this port will return to 1.5. > We cannot put our head in the sand on this one (unlink libtool, this does > included new applicable functionality). > > Please list the ports that broke so they may be addressed. Many of the > ports that depend on automake probably really don't in truth need it. > Any package that uses Makefile.am+automake is suppose to supply a built > Makefile.in. > > Automake 1.5 is now needed for Binutils and GCC work, so are we either > need an upgrade plan, or an "automake-current" port. Actually, automake > should return to 1.5, and an automake14 port created (via repo copy). > The ports that cannot handle 1.5 can use the outdated version. For what it's worth, I agree with your discussion here, particularly the last paragraph. -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message