Automated fix for automake 1.13 changes

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Sun Jan 20 16:04:12 PST 2013


On 2013-1-20 22:34 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> On Jan 19, 2013, at 20:26, Adam Mercer wrote:
>> It seems that upstream are thinking of adding these macros back into automake:
>>
>> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2013-01/msg00140.html>
>>
>> I'm not sure what the plans for the future are but it looks like they
>> may be back in automake-1.13.2 so we may not need to modify the ports,
>> at least for the time being...
> 
> 
> That's good to hear! In that case I'm much happier to just wait for 1.13.2.

Sounds good to me. We still need to patch the affected ports where a new
upstream release isn't likely to come soon (or ever), but this gives us
some breathing room. For the rest we can just refer the problem upstream.

- Josh


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