svn commit: r393512 - svnadmin/conf

Tijl Coosemans tijl at FreeBSD.org
Thu Aug 6 08:17:19 UTC 2015


On Thu, 6 Aug 2015 07:53:16 +0000 Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 07:51:08AM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 04:25:23PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>>> Oh, that's sad...  So who's behind autotools@ now?  Ade was doing hell of
>>> a good job maintaining GNU autocrap^W^Wthose ports.
>> 
>> It has been more than a year now that tijl has been leading the autotools
>> maintenance taking over the autotools support, improving a lot the situation
>> on FreeBSD by fixing lots of issues with libtool (on freebsd): the naming of
>> the libraries which was wrong, overlinking (via libtool.mk and upstreaming
>> things). Making the autotools regeneration (autoreconf) working almost ootb
>> for all ports which correctly uses (upstream part) autotools via
>> autoreconf.mk. And also cleaning up all the different concurrent version
>> available in ports so we can now live with only one single version for all
>> but autoconf.
> 
> Right, autotools@ is in good hands.  Thanks for the quick summary Baptiste.

I don't receive autotools@ email though.  If that address is defunct now
maybe autotools@ ports should be assigned to me now.


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