Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/gettext-lib

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 06:27:32PM +0000, Benny Siegert wrote:
> Module Name:  pkgsrc
> Committed By: bsiegert
> Date:         Sat Apr 11 18:27:32 UTC 2015
> 
> Modified Files:
>       pkgsrc/devel/gettext-lib: Makefile distinfo
> Added Files:
>       pkgsrc/devel/gettext-lib/patches: patch-gettext-runtime_configure
> Removed Files:
>       pkgsrc/devel/gettext-lib/patches: patch-gettext-runtime_configure.ac
> 
> Log Message:
> Remove autoconf dependency. It turns out that autoconf indirectly depends
> on gettext-lib (via help2man), creating a circular dependency.

We generally avoid depending on autoconf if sanely possible. Patches to
configure.ac can be included anyway to make it easier to figure out what
a specific change does.

Joerg