Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 16:48:16 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> Cc: Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>, jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za, sobomax@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, portmgr@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/automake Makefile distinfo pkg-plist ports/devel/automake/files patch-ab patch-ad Message-ID: <20011025164816.A2205@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20011025232050.B2786@hades.hell.gr>; from charon@labs.gr on Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 11:20:50PM %2B0300 References: <200110242107.OAA09339@windsor.research.att.com> <20011025232050.B2786@hades.hell.gr>
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On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 11:20:50PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > >The same goes for autoconf. The latest ntp code for instance needs version > > >2.52, so we can't just keep on hoping that it will disappear. > > > > My experience with newer autoconf a few months ago is that it is not > > backwards-compatible, so we'd need to create a way to have multiple > > autoconf versions installed. > > Well, devel/automake and devel/automake-current is what I was thinking > about, and this scheme is used for ports like postfix already (although automake 1.5 is not an in-development snapshot. It is released software. (I also oppose the "-devel" port names and wish I had never helped propogate that) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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