On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:

> I agree. Besides, the ports that use automake depend on port:automake so they 
> cannot benefit from an automake-devel port, unless we change them all to 
> depend on path:bin/automake:automake. We'd also need to make the same change 
> in MacPorts base (in ./src/port1.0/portconfigure.tcl) and release a new 
> version of MacPorts base.

Good point, that'd probably be more work than fixing the macros in the
first place.

>> If 1.13.1
>> already broke so much, it might be easiest to simply switch to 1.13.1b
>> in the main automake port now (it probably cannot break more than the
>> last version did?) to be able to discover other remaining problems
>> before the release of 1.13.2. Then MacPorts can switch to 1.13.2 as
>> soon as that version comes out.
>
> I'd be ok with that. I'd also be ok with just waiting until 1.13.2 is 
> released.

I've updated to 1.13.1b locally to test it out and will keep an eye
out for the 1.13.2 release, I don't like the idea of using a beta
release for such an important port.

Cheers

Adam
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