Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 19:05:10 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com> Cc: drosih@rpi.edu, ade@freebsd.org, portmgr@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Switch to newer AUTOCONF, and fixing ports Message-ID: <20011025190510.E4609@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <200110250527.WAA14597@windsor.research.att.com>; from fenner@research.att.com on Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 10:27:38PM -0700 References: <200110242107.OAA09339@windsor.research.att.com> <20011024205654.E3080@FreeBSD.org> <p05101010b7fd2df7277b@[128.113.24.47]> <200110250527.WAA14597@windsor.research.att.com>
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On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 10:27:38PM -0700, Bill Fenner wrote: > Don't forget that this 33% failure rate will affect people who use > FreeBSD to develop other software too. e.g. tcpdump, libpcap, tcpslice, > all fail either autoheader or autoconf with 2.52. It's also non-obvious > in some circumstances how to write autoconf scripts that work both with > 2.13 and 2.52. I do not thing being able to write scripts that work with either version is a goal the autoconf developers have put forward. A project has to settle on one version and have all its developers use that version. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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