Bug 226785

Summary:	Porter's Handbook, 6.6 Using GNU Autotools needs to discuss USES= autoreconf
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	freebsd
Component:	Books & Articles	Assignee:	freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status:	Closed Overcome By Events
Severity:	Affects Some People	CC:	linimon
Priority:	---
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description freebsd 2018-03-19 20:12:15 UTC

Section 6.6 of the Porter's Handbook discusses the use of USE_AUTOTOOLS, but makes no mention of the fact that they do nothing unless USES= autoreconf is also present.

It seems like the general build procedure should insure this automatically, but it doesn't.

Comment 1 freebsd 2018-03-19 21:38:41 UTC

As it turns out, section 6.6 needs to be completely reworked, as the use of USE_AUTOTOOLS is no longer allowed.

Comment 2 Mathieu Arnold freebsd_committer

2018-04-12 07:15:07 UTC

Mmmm, everything talking of USE_AUTOTOOLS was removed in doc r51510.