MacPorts automake and python

[Eric A. Borisch]

On Thursday, March 20, 2014, David Evans <devans at macports.org> wrote:

> On 3/20/14 3:01 PM, Adam Mercer wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Eric A. Borisch <eborisch at macports.org<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >
> >> What was broken that needed fixing (by the original change)? Is there a
> >> particular port that needed the change? Is there another way to fix it
> >> without modifying automake?
> >>
> The answer is yes, any port that uses AM_PYTHON_PATH to discover the
> Python install
> prefix will fail on MacPorts (or any other installation of Python into a
> non-standard path)
> without intervention and there are quite a few.
>
> In the past this has been handled typically by applying a similar patch
> to the configure file
> provided with each project being ported.  This works and the patch here
> does not interfere
> with this because the configure file is not being regenerated.
>
> However, increasingly, ports need to use autoreconf or even autogen.sh
> to regenerate configuration
> files prior to build for some other reason (intltool perl issues for
> instance).  This again effects a
> large number of ports.  In this case, patching of the configure file is
> impractical and the required
> patch to configure.ac amounts to replacing AM_PYTHON_PATH with custom
> code that is often
> package specific.  This change to automake makes that unnecessary.
>
> Have to head home now but will follow up later this evening.  In the
> meantime, please don't revert
> this change on your own as there are many ports that WILL be broken.
> If, we, as a group decide
> that that is the preferred approach, I will make the change after the
> effected ports have been re-written.
>
> Thanks
>
> PS What ever happened to the doctrine that if you mix code in other
> installation prefixes with MacPorts
> ports, all bets are off and results are not guaranteed?
>

Dave,

Any updates on the ports that were fixed / simplified by this patch? I've
heard it said, and seen multiple requests for "which ones?" and "where are
the tickets?"

Can you please shed some light on this?

Thanks,
  Eric
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