Autohell with Anjuta -- any possible solutions?

Christopher Nehren apeiron at comcast.net
Fri Apr 16 18:57:30 GMT 2004


On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 12:56:27 EDT, Ade Lovett scribbled these
curious markings:
> 
> We're hoping to get the first cut (the simple "null commit", splitting 
> out into bsd.autotools.mk) before 4.10 -- originally, I was hoping to 
> get the rebuilt version into place too, but am running into a few 
> issues with ports that are making Bad Assumptions[tm] about autotools.

I've seen examples of that, and have been known to devise many a
colorful metaphor to describe them.

> Since GNOME, and KDE, are heavy consumers of autotools, there'll be a 
> whole bunch of fun testing to do as part of the two separate autotools 
> projects - (a) cleaning up bsd.autotools.mk, and (b) getting rid of as 
> many "dead" versions of autotools as possible.

That sounds like a great job for jail(8), at least if you have the
resources for it. I hereby volunteer to be a test guinnea pig. 

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