[28760] trunk/dports/devel/libtool/Portfile

[Blair Zajac]

On Sep 8, 2007, at 9:39 PM, N_Ox wrote:

>
> Le 8 sept. 07 à 22:04, Ryan Schmidt a écrit :
>
>> On Sep 8, 2007, at 08:58, source_changes at macosforge.org wrote:
>>
>>> Revision: 28760
>>>           http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/changeset/ 
>>> 28760
>>> Author:   nox at macports.org
>>> Date:     2007-09-08 06:58:45 -0700 (Sat, 08 Sep 2007)
>>>
>>> Log Message:
>>> -----------
>>> libtool:
>>>  * Added standard doc install.
>>
>> Please don't forget to increment the port revision when you make a  
>> change that causes the port to install different files. I've been  
>> fixing this on the ones you've just committed.
>>
>
> From what I've understood until now, documentation files is not  
> relevant enough to increase revision number.
> Nevertheless, it would not hurt that much to increase it and i have  
> never done it because i thought that was the current policy, thanks  
> again for noticing me it's not.
>
>>>  * Removed obsolete configure args and darwin 6 platform.
>>
>> Why was the darwin 6 platform removed? Do you have knowledge that  
>> it does not function anymore, or is not necessary anymore on  
>> darwin 6? Unless you do, darwin 6 platforms should be left in  
>> place. The latest consensus on darwin 6 was that although it is no  
>> longer a supported platform, we would still accept patches to fix  
>> things for darwin 6, and we should not deliberately break darwin  
>> 6. At least that's what I recall. If we want to change that policy  
>> now, then let's discuss that (and document the outcome in the  
>> guide of course).
>>
>
> I thought unsupported things should be removed from portfiles.
> Out of curiosity, does base still build on darwin 6?

Unless we know for sure that it doesn't work, we should leave the  
support in there.

Regards,
Blair

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