Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 23:59:12 +0300 From: Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org> To: Jakob Breivik Grimstveit <jakob@grimstveit.no> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, ade@FreeBSD.orf Subject: Re: autoconf - upgrade to 2.6.*? Message-ID: <20061121235912.b63f36f1.stas@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <loom.20061121T192943-25@post.gmane.org> References: <loom.20061121T192943-25@post.gmane.org>
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--Signature=_Tue__21_Nov_2006_23_59_12_+0300_HOM+g_3AFDDkaT32 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:35:39 +0000 (UTC) Jakob Breivik Grimstveit <jakob@grimstveit.no> mentioned: > I see now that we've had autoconf at version 2.59 since 15mar05 [1]. 26 June > this year v2.60 was released [2], and not long ago v2.6.1 was released as well > (17 Nov). > > I assume it will be a big task to accomplish this, but is there any plans > regarding to make v2.6.x available via the ports tree? > > Many new applications today require the 2.6 series of autoconf, and it would be > great to be able to use ports versions of this program instead of installing it > by hand. > > If this already has been discussed (which I could not find), I apologize. > > Thanks in advance, guys and gals! > AFAIK, the update is already planned, and ade@ will update it soon. After this update, we'll have only a single version of autoconf/automake in ports, no more gnu-* versions of these utils. -- Stanislav Sedov http://people.freebsd.org/~stas/stas.key.asc --Signature=_Tue__21_Nov_2006_23_59_12_+0300_HOM+g_3AFDDkaT32 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFY2igK/VZk+smlYERAm5eAJoDyp6nbWVtAA4D6NS6KUNsq4sSzACeIGfq JG0W9NoRNziOIBq19BduY5w= =mAcC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Tue__21_Nov_2006_23_59_12_+0300_HOM+g_3AFDDkaT32--
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