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@@ -10,6 +10,57 @@ in the release notes. All ports committers are allowed to commit to this file. +20040504: + Over the past few weeks, we have been testing the next + incarnation of ports/Mk/bsd.autotools.mk on the road to bringing + at least some semblance of sanity back to this corner of the + ports collection. + + By far and away the easiest way to see the changes will be to + view the new file once committed, but here is a summary of the + changes: + + 1. USE_LIBTOOL, USE_AUTOCONF, USE_AUTOHEADER, USE_AUTOMAKE have + been fully deprecated. Ports attempting to use these variables + after the commit will error out, and most obviously break INDEX + generation, with a helpful error message. Instead, ports must + now specifically choose the version of any of these tools that + they need with the corresponding USE_*_VER variables. Note that + these variables understand any and all versions of autotools ports + in the tree, there is no longer a need to have specific version + numbers hardcoded in the infrastructure of bsd.autotools.mk + (as there is now). In particular, this will immediately open up + automake18 and autoconf259 for general use and beating. + + 2. Similarly for WANT_LIBTOOL, WANT_AUTOCONF, and WANT_AUTOMAKE. + Again, these have been fully deprecated, and the equivalent + WANT_*_VER versions should be used. + + In order to preserve existing behavior for these variables, please + note the 20040314 entry in ports/CHANGES for the appropriate + version numbers to use for any ports in the GNATS queue. + + Both WANT_* and USE_* bring in the relevant tool as a build + dependency, and set up a reasonably large number of variables + pointing to the right programs to be using in the port. The + only difference at the moment, is that USE_* will run an extra + autotools-related configuration step, whereas WANT_* merely + requests the environment. + + 3. The helper knob USE_LIBLTDL has been added which currently + simply adds a LIB dependency on the libltdl port. + + 4. Three new variables have been introduced, + WANT_{LIBTOOL,AUTOCONF,AUTOMAKE}_RUN=yes. These variables will + do nothing by themselves (a Work-In-Progress), but if the + appropriate autotool version is defined (either through + WANT_*_VER or USE_*_VER), this will add the relevant dependency + to RUN_DEPENDS. + + Steps 3 and 4 now essentially negate the need for any kind of + direct dependency within a non-autotools port Makefile on + devel/autoconf*, devel/automake*, devel/libtool*, and devel/libltdl. + 20040416: There has been a couple of bsd.java.mk tweaks and fixes. |