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Date:      Wed, 9 Apr 2014 20:33:34 +0200
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
To:        marino@freebsd.org
Cc:        svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r350627 - in head/multimedia/xmms: . files
Message-ID:  <20140409183334.GB66352@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
In-Reply-To: <53458E00.8050009@marino.st>
References:  <201404081535.s38FZIwG078361@svn.freebsd.org> <20140409073738.GA27075@FreeBSD.org> <20140409075935.GP97416@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <20140409173825.GA8127@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> <20140409180106.GA66352@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <53458E00.8050009@marino.st>

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On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 08:14:24PM +0200, John Marino wrote:
> On 4/9/2014 20:01, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 07:38:25PM +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> >> Baptiste Daroussin:
> >>
> >>> FYI I cannot count how many time I have spend (wasted) on abandonned =
ports to be
> >>> able to have bring cross building, packaging as a user etc
> >>
> >> Look, I largely agree with you, but XMMS is the wrong target.
> >>
> >> --=20
> >> Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.=
de
> >=20
> > I target nothing ;) I don t care about xmms as long as it is actively m=
aintained
> > (thank you for volunteering here) It just got targetted because of the =
old vuln
> >=20
>=20
> I sort of have a problem with XMMS's age.
> All the ports are so old that I've had to patch configure to recognize
> dragonfly.  That means the configure scripts are older than dragonfly.
>=20
> Is there some autotools that can automatically fix / regenerate these
> scripts?  If so, can all the XMMS ports be set to use it?
Not yet but I hope someone will come up with a USES=3Dautoreconf one day
It is also a problem for freebsd 10+ hidden right now with a giant ugly and
dirty patch in bsd.port.mk may be here USES=3Dlibtool may help, actually I =
m 90%
sure it will, otherwise we are doomed because even autoreconf will fail wit=
h so
ancient autotools

regards,
Bapt

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