Autoconf is an extensible package of m4 macros that produce shell
scripts to automatically configure software source code packages.
These scripts can adapt the packages to many kinds of UNIX-like
systems without manual user intervention. Autoconf creates a
configuration script for a package from a template file that lists the
operating system features that the package can use, in the form of m4
macro calls.
WWW: http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/
Purge WANT_{LIBTOOL,AUTOCONF,AUTOMAKE}_RUN
The versioned autotools are now strictly for building other ports in the tree.
Likewise, the gnu- autotools are for runtime dependencies for IDEs, and others,
where unmodified cross-platform capabilities are desired.
All that we see or seem, is but a dream, within a dream.
Take back maintainership. I'll be scouring the PR database shortly,
if I miss any, or someone beats me to it, please feel free to reassign
appropriately.
Relinquish maintainership. I no longer have the time, energy,
or interest to look after these things any more.
To whomever picks these up, I salute you. I'll reset the relevant
PRs to ports-bugs in a couple of weeks if no-one has taken over
maintainership.
Farewell, autotool hell.
Actually put in relevant symlinks to the versioned files in
${PREFIX}/bin to non-versioned files in ${PREFIX}/libexec/<autotool><ver>
so that the PATH magic in bsd.autotools.mk works correctly.
Fix for auto-creation of an auxiliary directory when using the base
version of perl in 4.x
Whilst the package list isn't affected, PORTREVISION has been bumped
to warn 4.x users -- those on 5.x don't necessarily have to update.
PR: 68509
Submitted by: Martin Kammerhofer <dada@pluto.tugraz.at>
Say hello to autoconf 2.59 and automake 1.8(.3) after repo-copy.
It's likely to be a really bad idea to use these until they're hooked
into the new bsd.autotools.mk
