[37615] branches/gsoc08-privileges/base

[Rainer Müller]

Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Jun 15, 2008, at 12:36 PM, pmagrath at macports.org wrote:
> 
>> --- branches/gsoc08-privileges/base/configure	2008-06-15 17:35:46  
>> UTC (rev 37614)
>> +++ branches/gsoc08-privileges/base/configure	2008-06-15 17:36:41  
>> UTC (rev 37615)
>> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
>>  #! /bin/sh
>>  # Guess values for system-dependent variables and create Makefiles.
>> -# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.61 for MacPorts 1.7.0.
>> +# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.60 for MacPorts 1.7.0.
> 
> 
> You should be generating the configure script with the same version  
> of autoconf that we've been using (2.61, comes with Leopard). Your  
> commit there made hundreds of lines of irreleant changes to the  
> configure script...

Thanks you noticed, so I know that at least others are watching the
gsoc-* branches as well :-)

I didn't look at the whole diff and just tested the resulting new
configure script. But you are right, it was a huge diff.

> I know we haven't documented this really... I looked for it the other  
> day when I made my first ever change to the configure script... if  
> you have suggestions for where and how we could document this please  
> let us know.

Maybe base/HACKING would be an appropriate place?

> I was thinking at least the regen.sh script should hardcode the paths  
> to the OS binaries (instead of using the MacPorts binaries if  
> available), if that's what we intend to happen.

Hm, is this regen.sh script in use at all? 'autoreconf --force' does the
same automatically and is what I would have called if I wanted to
rebuild the autofoo stuff.

Rainer