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>On Friday 08 March 2002 5:24 am, James Chacon wrote:
>> So...I need to patch configure.in in wm/icewm.
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>> This requires autoconf 2.50 or greater which autoconf-devel 
>> provides...Except that -devel conflicts with autoconf 2.13
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>> Checking the Makefile I see only snmp and snns really care right now:
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>> net/ucd-snmp/Makefile:BUILD_DEPENDS+=   autoconf-2.13:../../devel/autoconf
>> math/snns/Makefile:BUILD_DEPENDS+=      autoconf-2.13:../../devel/autoconf
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>There are others that are not quite so obvious.
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>> So...whats the recommended way to fix this? I can't put both autoconf's on
>> right now and if I install 2.5 those 2 packages won't be able to build
>> anymore.
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>> Just patch configure right now until those everything is checked out for
>> working with autoconf 2.50 and it's switched over as the default? 
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>Patch both configure.in, configure and any other files that might be 
>regenerated from the configure.in patch.

And just don't put a BUILD_DEPENDS line in?

How are you going to find these later, just scan all the patch files?

James

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>I have an almost (85%) complete set of changes to upgrade automake and 
>autoconf to 1.5 and 2.52 respectively while still retaining 1.4p5 and 2.13 as 
>non-conflicting pkgs. I hope to be finished in the next couple of weeks.
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>Nick
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