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Date:      Tue, 23 Mar 2004 02:38:44 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Kevin Leung <xhidem@yahoo.com.hk>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Autoconf and Automake limitation in <bsd.port.mk>
Message-ID:  <20040323103844.GA29968@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <c3p2m9$12u$1@sea.gmane.org>
References:  <c3p2m9$12u$1@sea.gmane.org>

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On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 06:14:44PM +0800, Kevin Leung wrote:
> Hi
>=20
> I am porting a new program which requires autoconf258 or greater. I have=
=20
> looked into <bsd.port.mk> and found that the devel autoconf version is=20
> set to 257. I think we need to remove the 257 "barrier".
>=20
> Could somebody please look into that?

Already in progress.  Upgrading auto* ports are exceedingly difficult
because they are typically not backwards compatibile and therefore
break a lot of software.

Kris

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