From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Oct 25 19: 5:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D537737B403; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 19:05:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id f9Q25Br04878; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 19:05:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 19:05:10 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Bill Fenner 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> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <200110242107.OAA09339@windsor.research.att.com> <20011024205654.E3080@FreeBSD.org> <200110250527.WAA14597@windsor.research.att.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200110250527.WAA14597@windsor.research.att.com>; from fenner@research.att.com on Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 10:27:38PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@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 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