From owner-cvs-all Wed Oct 24 23: 3:30 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za (zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF92437B401; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 23:03:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9P63AY60484; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 08:03:10 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from jhay) From: John Hay Message-Id: <200110250603.f9P63AY60484@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/automake Makefile distinfo pkg-plist ports/devel/automake/files patch-ab patch-ad In-Reply-To: <20011024144228.C12307@dragon.nuxi.com> from "David O'Brien" at "Oct 24, 2001 02:42:28 pm" To: obrien@FreeBSD.org Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 08:03:10 +0200 (SAT) Cc: sobomax@FreeBSD.org (Maxim Sobolev), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 > > > 2. Pre-create Makefile.in/configure with the whatever version of > > autocrap you favorite port requires and then add those files > > as patches in the FILESDIR or PATCHFILE at the MASTER_SITE_LOCAL. > > I am not using this in port building -- I am using automake+autoconf the > way it was intended to be used -- by developers of software. > > > Actually the vendor of the code should be slapped over head for > > supplying distfile without those files, but that's a different > > story... > > They *DO*, but I am changing Makefile.am and configure.in and I MUST > generate new Makefile.in & configure before I can check my changes into > the FSF GCC & Binutils repo -- exactly so that your believe that vendors > supply those generated files happens. I can just say that my need for the new automake+autoconf is basically the same as David's. I need it to help in the development of ntp. The distfile, that will be made available when the new ntp release becomes available, will have configure etc. included. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message