Automake is a tool for automatically generating Makefiles compliant with
the GNU Coding Standards. It was inspired by the 4.4BSD make and include
files, but aims to be portable and to conform to the GNU standards for
Makefile variables and targets. Automake is a Perl script. The input files
are called Makefile.am. The output files are called Makefile.in; They are
intended for use with Autoconf. Automake requires certain things to be done
in your configure.in. This package also includes the "aclocal"
program. aclocal is a program to generate an 'aclocal.m4' based on the
contents of 'configure.in'. It is useful as an extensible, maintainable
mechanism for augmenting autoconf.
This port is specifically designed for developers that want to create
cross-platform software distributions on FreeBSD. This version of automake
should _NEVER_ be used with the FreeBSD ports system as a replacement for the
versioned copies of automake.
WWW: http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/
-- AlanE <alane@freebsd.org>
With the regular autotools ports now being able to be used not only
for ports building, but also cross-platform development, mark these
two as DEPRECATED, with a one-month expiration date.
Patches for the 3 ports that currently use these have been issued to
their maintainers.
- Set --mandir and --infodir in CONFIGURE_ARGS if the configure script
supports them. This is determined by running ``configure --help'' in
do-configure target and set the shell variable _LATE_CONFIGURE_ARGS
which is then passed to CONFIGURE_ARGS.
- Remove --mandir and --infodir in ports' Makefile where applicable
Few ports use REINPLACE_CMD to achieve the same effect, remove them too.
- Correct some manual pages location from PREFIX/man to MANPREFIX/man
- Define INFO_PATH where necessary
- Document that .info files are installed in a subdirectory relative to
PREFIX/INFO_PATH and slightly change add-plist-info to use INFO_PATH and
subdirectory detection.
PR: ports/111470
Approved by: portmgr
Discussed with: stas (Mk/*), gerald (info related stuffs)
Tested by: pointyhat exp run
Since we're using NO_MTREE, we need to completely clean up behind us.
Curiously, with a 'normal test sequence' of PREFIX=/build make ...
this didn't flag any errors.
Submitted by: pointyhat
Assume maintainership.
It's important to note here that these particular versions of autotools
will be left without FreeBSD-specific hacks, so that developers and IDEs
alike will be able to run in a pristine environment, ensuring
cross-platform capability. The prefix of ${LOCALBASE}/gnu-autotools
will remain untouched, it's merely a case of ensuring that they are
kept up to date.
Approved by: marcus
Add gnu-automake, (repo-copied from devel/automake19) an unhacked version of
automake-1.8.5 aimed at developers that need to create cross-platform software
distributions. This port installs into ${LOCALBASE}/gnu-autotools, so
developers that need to make use of this version of autoconf can adjust their
paths accordingly.
Discussed with: ade
