Base Enhancements

[Landon Fuller]

On Jul 16, 2007, at 20:03, Chris Pickel wrote:

> Hi all,


> 12309 [1] - Currently we use sed to do some replacement in port,  
> portindex, and portmirror. I think autoconf is better suited to this.

Using make for this purpose ensures that the scripts are re-built  
when their source is updated. See:
http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.57/html_mono/ 
autoconf.html#SEC24

> 12310 [2] - Right now we detect some libraries (curl, readline,  
> etc.) and then we link them all into every dylib we compile. This  
> patch slims it down so that decisions can be made separately for  
> each dylib.

Looks good to me, although CFLAGS should probably be broken out too

> 12311 [3] - On the same note as my previous post to -dev about  
> macports_fastload.tcl. This is a fix for the version comparison  
> problem.

Paul should comment on this one.

> 12312 [4] - Several manpages reference paths according to  
> variables, rather than giving the actual path; we can do the latter  
> and that's more helpful to users.

Sweet, although I think this should still be done with Makefile  
substitution, as per above =)

-landonf

> [1] http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/12309
> [2] http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/12310
> [3] http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/12311
> [4] http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/12312
>
> The only one I have a strong attachment to is 12310, but I feel the  
> others are improvements too.
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: PGP.sig
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 186 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/attachments/20070717/d07f1296/PGP.bin