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Date:      Wed, 24 Oct 2001 22:27:38 -0700
From:      Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>
To:        drosih@rpi.edu
Cc:        ade@freebsd.org, portmgr@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Switch to newer AUTOCONF, and fixing ports
Message-ID:  <200110250527.WAA14597@windsor.research.att.com>
References:   <200110242107.OAA09339@windsor.research.att.com> <20011024205654.E3080@FreeBSD.org> <p05101010b7fd2df7277b@[128.113.24.47]>

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I wrote a script that does "make configure" on all USE_AUTOCONF ports
with autoconf 2.52 installed; it's only gotten to japanese/esecanna-mod
but 48 out of 94 ports have failed.  This includes 15 on which it was
the "./configure" run itself that failed, so it's only 33 that failed
on the autoconf step; the other 15 need more examination to determine
if it's my host environment or the new autoconf that caused the failure.

(It will try with 2.13.000227 next; presumably those results will be
available in the morning.)

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.

  Bill

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