[macports-ports] branch master updated: devel/automake: update to 1.16.1

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 15, 2018, at 17:25, Adam Mercer wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 3:23 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>>> master_sites        gnu
>>> -checksums           rmd160  3dfd5d5aa037db5aae281829539eef328694cd75 \
>>> -                    sha256  988e32527abe052307d21c8ca000aa238b914df363a617e38f4fb89f5abf6260
>>> +use_xz              yes
>>> +checksums           rmd160  8c2a91e8fc0595dbf4854be3cef4d14bb8c5e756 \
>>> +                    sha256  5d05bb38a23fd3312b10aea93840feec685bdf4a41146e78882848165d3ae921
>> 
>> This works right now, but it's very easy for this to cause problems in the future, because it means xz and xz's dependencies can't use automake; if they did, it would be a circular dependency and new installs would fail with a confusing lack of error message.
> 
> Good point. I'll get a patch ready to switch back to the .gz as
> circular dependencies are always a nightmare.

Well, I see autoconf already uses xz too, so I guess we can leave it for now.