Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:15654 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 65579 invoked by uid 1010); 29 Mar 2005 12:24:20 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 65443 invoked from network); 29 Mar 2005 12:24:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO iki.fi) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 29 Mar 2005 12:24:12 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 195.197.172.116 gw02.mail.saunalahti.fi Linux 2.4/2.6 Received: from ([195.197.172.116:37331] helo=gw02.mail.saunalahti.fi) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity HEAD r(5268)) with SMTP id 97/E2-16973-AE849424 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 07:24:10 -0500 Received: from nest.netphobia.fi (YZCLXVIII.dsl.saunalahti.fi [85.76.34.69]) by gw02.mail.saunalahti.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCE2DBBEC8; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 15:24:06 +0300 (EEST) Received: from nest.netphobia.fi (nest.netphobia.fi [127.0.0.1]) by nest.netphobia.fi (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j2TCO8Ce031779; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 15:24:08 +0300 Received: from localhost (jani@localhost) by nest.netphobia.fi (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) with ESMTP id j2TCO79g031776; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 15:24:08 +0300 X-Authentication-Warning: nest.netphobia.fi: jani owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 15:24:07 +0300 (EEST) Reply-To: Jani Taskinen To: Roman Neuhauser Cc: Jon Parise , internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <20050329114511.GB42955@isis.sigpipe.cz> Message-ID: References: <20050327221532.GA17108@csh.rit.edu> <20050329114511.GB42955@isis.sigpipe.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Build system support for stock FreeBSD autoconf ports From: sniper@iki.fi (Jani Taskinen) On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > # sniper@iki.fi / 2005-03-29 11:11:27 +0300: >> On Sun, 27 Mar 2005, Jon Parise wrote: >> >>> The attached patch allows PHP's build system to recognize FreeBSD's >>> "versioned" autoconf ports without the need for system-level symlinks >>> or similar aliasing. It uses 'shtool path' to (attempt to) locate the >>> appropriate autoconf / autoheader executable. >> >> I added such patch once but Sebastian got some problems with >> it so it was reverted. And I don't want to add this patch >> either unless there is very good reason to do so. > > It would be interesting to know what the problems were so that > they could be ironed out. He had the problems with gentoo and it's autoconf wrapper crap. >> And finally: Common users should NEVER EVER run buildconf. > > But why make hacking PHP harder? And how is it hard atm to run './buildconf' ?? If you have autoconf (any version above 2.13 works) installed, there are no problems. --Jani