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On Mar 09, 2007, at 17:30 , Jean-Yves Lefort wrote:
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 17:05:31 -0800
Ade Lovett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
3. Ports that *are* affected by this issue (assuming the issue still
exists) can be fixed in a more relaxed manner (eg: a conversion of
GNU_CONFIGURE=YES to USE_AUTOTOOLS=configurehack [implying
GNU_CONFIGURE=YES]) than a time-T switch. It will also allow for
such affected ports to have PORTREVISIONs bumped by the respective
maintainers so as to more clearly identify improved operation to the
consumers of those ports.
All ports that use libtool to produce a program or shared library are
affected by this issue.
This in turn implies that in case that there is an issue, and
something needs to be done about it, then silently changing the
semantics of GNU_CONFIGURE is not an appropriate solution. In order
for the change, should it be required, to be communicated to all the
consumers of the FreeBSD ports tree, and not that subset that happens
to read esoteric discussions on a high volume mailing list, this
requires that we use the tools available to us, ie: bumping
PORTREVISION.
1. Identify if there is still a problem.
2a. If not, get on with something more productive.
2b. If yes, add a new stanza to USE_AUTOTOOLS, for simplicities sake
we'll call it lthack, which defines GNU_CONFIGURE, and also wanders
through the configuration files performing the appropriate hackery.
3. Maintainers that have ports affected by the issue go in to the
Makefile, chunk GNU_CONFIGURE, add USE_AUTOTOOLS= lthack, bump
PORTREVISION, and move on to the next one.
The semantics of GNU_CONFIGURE itself don't change, so no chance of
unintended infra-structural breakdown, full-tree operations are not
adversely impacted by needlessly including additional Mk/bsd.*.mk
files, and the update is limited to those consumers of the new
USE_AUTOTOOLS stanza, without touching bsd.port.mk, thus not
requiring a full -exp run. A rather more elegant solution than
sledgehammer blows which, whilst occasionally needed, soak up huge
amounts of resource, and are to be avoided if at all possible.
- -aDe
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