Ports 104877 causing big problems

[Doug Barton]

Ade Lovett wrote:
> 
> 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.

So it sounds like a reasonable way to proceed would be for Kent to
save a copy of his current libgpg-error +REQUIRED_BY file, then run
one of the commands that mezz suggested, and compare the before and
after pictures. If the problem is fixed, they should be substantially
different.

Doug

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