[Xquartz-dev] X11 2.2.0_rc1

Jeremy Huddleston jeremyhu at berkeley.edu
Fri Mar 28 15:59:36 PDT 2008


On Mar 28, 2008, at 15:42, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>> On Mar 28, 2008, at 11:56, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
>
>>> However, Fink and MacPorts can add packages for both xmkmf and imake
>>
>> I think it would be best for them to just run 'autoreconf' in those
>> packages which were prepared with older versions of autoconf.
>
> 'cept that the patch is not yet in a released version of autoconf -  
> Ralf
> has just applied it to the autoconf git repository, so it should be in
> autoconf-2.62 whenever that is released.
>
> I guess I will have to patch fink's autoconf (currently at 2.61). Note
> that running autoreconf does not always work, for example, it will  
> fail
> in any of Thomas Dickey's packages as he maintains his own version of
> autoconf which has different behavior.

True... and this is fixed in his autoconf as well.  I understand the  
'autoconf bugfix delay' issue... I just don't think it justifies  
including xmkmf and imake which don't work outside of providing a  
workaround for this autoconf bug =/

--Jeremy
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