Re: Tackilng multiple versions of autoconf

2007-10-16 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On 10/17/07, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007/10/16 21:45, Marc Espie wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 07:45:24PM +0200, Landry Breuil wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > To be more reasonable (i suppose most ports using autotools in tree > > > won't change their build scheme before

Re: Tackilng multiple versions of autoconf

2007-10-16 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 11:12:36PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > $ locate patch-|grep configure|wc -l > 618 > > ok, they won't _all_ be autoconf, but this gives you a rough idea how > often autoconf users don't take account of making things work properly > on other OS, which is rather th

Re: Tackilng multiple versions of autoconf

2007-10-16 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/10/16 21:45, Marc Espie wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 07:45:24PM +0200, Landry Breuil wrote: > > Hi, > > > > To be more reasonable (i suppose most ports using autotools in tree > > won't change their build scheme before earth blows itself, maybe > > because of autotools), i'd like to ad

Re: Tackilng multiple versions of autoconf

2007-10-16 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Landry Breuil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When upgrading a port, it costs little time to check that newest > version still needs a particular AUTO*_VERSION, and remove the option > if ports compiles with 'normal-latest' autotools version. Actually, I check the included configure script and use

Re: Tackilng multiple versions of autoconf

2007-10-16 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 07:45:24PM +0200, Landry Breuil wrote: > Hi, > > To be more reasonable (i suppose most ports using autotools in tree > won't change their build scheme before earth blows itself, maybe > because of autotools), i'd like to add my tiny-little p.o.v to this > discussion : > >

Re: Tackilng multiple versions of autoconf

2007-10-16 Thread Landry Breuil
Hi, To be more reasonable (i suppose most ports using autotools in tree won't change their build scheme before earth blows itself, maybe because of autotools), i'd like to add my tiny-little p.o.v to this discussion : When upgrading a port, it costs little time to check that newest version still

Re: Tackilng multiple versions of autoconf

2007-10-16 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 11:50:52AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 11:52:27AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2007/10/16 16:10, Amarendra Godbole wrote: > > > A peculiar thing I noticed with many ports is they need different > > > versions of > > > autoconf installed

Re: Tackilng multiple versions of autoconf

2007-10-16 Thread Gregg Reynolds
On 10/16/07, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This isn't a problem. > > The OP seems to think it is or he (she?) wouldn't waste his time > emailing the list or making an offer to a considerable amount of work to > fix it. Rather than just dissing him, why not enlighten us as to wh

Re: Tackilng multiple versions of autoconf

2007-10-16 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 11:52:27AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2007/10/16 16:10, Amarendra Godbole wrote: > > A peculiar thing I noticed with many ports is they need different versions > > of > > autoconf installed (set through the AUTOCONF_VERSION variable) - so in the > > end, my system

Re: Tackilng multiple versions of autoconf

2007-10-16 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/10/16 16:10, Amarendra Godbole wrote: > A peculiar thing I noticed with many ports is they need different versions of > autoconf installed (set through the AUTOCONF_VERSION variable) - so in the > end, my system has 3 versions after a couple of port builds (2.13, 2.59, and > 2.61). This is

Tackilng multiple versions of autoconf

2007-10-16 Thread Amarendra Godbole
Hi, A peculiar thing I noticed with many ports is they need different versions of autoconf installed (set through the AUTOCONF_VERSION variable) - so in the end, my system has 3 versions after a couple of port builds (2.13, 2.59, and 2.61). The 2.61 version seems to be the latest one. In order to