-On [20050612 20:48], Johnny C. Lam (jlam@NetBSD.org) wrote:
>We've discussed this in the past, and we don't want to ever automatically
>run the GNU autotools.  We often patch configure scripts and Makefile.in
>files directly since in the past, GNU autotool-generated files have
>been highly dependent on having the correct minor version of either
>GNU autoconf or GNU automake.

dillo suggested a sed script that always patches up these configure files,
how much chance of survival c.q. how big a success rate do you think this
will have versus most configure files of differing versions?

>If you want to also replace ltmain.sh automatically, could you please
>submit a patch against autoconf.mk?

I can definitely submit that, right now it's a hook in bsd.pkg.mk that I
made.

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