Bug 66271

Summary: Automake 1.8 is not known to ports system
Product: Ports & Packages Reporter: Boris <Boris>
Component: Individual Port(s)Assignee: Ade Lovett <ade>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
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Description Boris freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2004-05-05 04:10:22 UTC 
 I'm maintainer of Quagga port. I want to use automake 1.8 in my new port
 because automake 1.7 expires Dec 31. But when I try to use WANT_AUTOMAKE_VER=18
 in Makefile I get "unknown AUTOMAKE version 1.8" error message.

Fix: 

Changing dev_amver=17 to dev_amver=18 in ports/Mk/bsd.autotools.mk will
 help, but I can't predict all of the consequences.
How-To-Repeat:  WANT_AUTOMAKE_VER=18 in Makefile then make
Comment 1 Boris Kovalenko 2004-05-05 05:17:19 UTC 
Hello!

    We really have a big problem here. I try to use automake 1.7 but 
something withing Quagga package or aclocal17 or something else (I 
really don't know what) uses just autoconf instead of autoconf257 as I 
need, so I can't compile the Quagga package. If I create a link from 
/usr/local/bin/autoconf257 to /usr/local/bin/autoconf all working fine. 
But this is not a solution at all :( May someone help me? Thinking we 
should now make automake18 and autoconf259 (or may be 1.7 and 2.57) to 
default versions.

-- 
With respect,
	Boris
Comment 2 Ade Lovett freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2004-05-05 05:31:05 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->analyzed

As explained to the submitter, there is an outstanding PR (66037) which 
will address these, and other issues with bsd.autotools.mk, which was 
merely ripped from bsd.port.mk due to constraints with 4.10-RELEASE. 

With that out of the door, a couple of 4-exp runs should allow for a 
much more flexible interim autotools "solution".
Comment 3 Ade Lovett freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2004-05-05 05:31:05 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-ports-bugs->ade

Left this PR to remind me to poke people about 66037 :)
Comment 4 Ade Lovett freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2004-06-04 18:36:21 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: analyzed->closed

Recent update to bsd.autotools.mk has fixed this.