cvs commit: ports/Mk bsd.autotools.mk

[Ade Lovett]

On Mar 15, 2006, at 01:51 , Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> libtool.m4, actually.  devel/gnu-libtool installs it:

So?  devel/gnu-libtool was not touched by this change, nor, indeed,  
were any of the devel/gnu-* autotools.

> Compare and contrast what happens with the old gnu-libtool installed:

Again, devel/gnu-libtool was *not* changed.

> The great majority of ports don't use aclocal, because the tarballs
> ship with pre-generated aclocal and configure scripts.  If you didn't
> already know and understand that, you have no business messing with
> the autotool ports.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but I have forgotten more about  
how libtool/autoconf/automake interact than most people will ever know.

> This is not a religious argument.  It's a very simple technical
> argument:  the GNU autotools used to work, now they don't.

Given that devel/gnu-{libtool,autoconf,automake} haven't been  
changed, I fail to understand what the problem is here.  Of course,  
if you're mixing and matching the gnu- prefixed tools with the ports  
tools, then things are very likely to break.  There's a big banner  
comment in bsd.autotools.mk, and the gnu-* ports, about that.  Caveat  
emptor.

-aDe