Bug 72743

Summary: Porter's Handbook lacks info on using autoconf, automake, etc.
Product: Documentation Reporter: Fernan Aguero <fernan>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me CC: ade
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Fernan Aguero 2004-10-15 20:40:31 UTC 
	
	
	The Chapter 6 on 'Special considerations' has a section on
	'Using automake, autoconf and libtool'.
	http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/using-automake.html
	
	However, the section is essentially empty and only contains
	table 6.3 (Variables for ports that use automake, autoconf or
	libtool).
	http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/using-automake.html#AEN2507

	I am currently testing a port that needs to have autoconf run
	after some patches are applied. I've looked into the Porter's
	handbook for information and haven't found it.
	
	The table is not clear to me, since after reading it it's not
	yet obvious to me what incantations should be used into a port's
	Makefile.

	Unfortunately, since I don't know yet how this should be done,
	I'm unable to also fix the documentation gap -- first I have to
	fill my own knowledge gap :)

	I'm just filling the PR so that the issue doesn't get lost or
	forgotten.
Comment 1 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2005-12-23 20:51:18 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

A large, new chapter on the latest changes for auto* was written by aDe 
and committed in 1.636.