Ports 104877 causing big problems

[Ade Lovett]

On Mar 09, 2007, at 14:21 , Doug Barton wrote:
> Can we have some response from Ade, and/or portmgr on when this might
> be fixed? I would agree that the current behavior is suboptimal.

I'm pretty certain that this has been addressed with recent updates  
to devel/libtool15 and devel/libltdl15 -- certainly it solved the  
gnucash problem that had a similar failure case.

The patch as it stands in 104877 is flawed in that it brings in  
bsd.autotools.mk merely with a GNU_CONFIGURE enabled and as such  
makes tree-wide changes to those ports that use this stanza, but not  
a USE_AUTOTOOLS stanza, thus giving no incentive for port maintainers  
themselves to ensure that the fixes are punted back upstream.

So, item (1): does the problem actually still exist with a port using  
the in-tree devel/libtool15 (via USE_AUTOTOOLS= libtool:15[:env].  If  
yes, empirical evidence will be required as an addendum to the PR.   
If no, then we're done.

Item (2).  The patch as stands will not go in, since that part that  
is bsd.port.mk fundamentally violates POLA.  If such a mechanism is  
required, then it will need to be developed as an addendum to the  
existing USE_AUTOTOOLS stanza, so that it is *very* clear which ports  
need to be upstream-fixed.

-aDe