On 2020/04/15 21:52, Paul Hardy wrote: > With what's available "out of the box" on OpenBSD 6.6, one conflict is > that the latest version of autoconf available with pkg_add insists > upon the latest version of GNU libtool, which is newer than the latest > libtool version available through pkg_add.
I don't understand this. We have 500+ ports that use autoconf 2.69 at build time (and more that use a configure scripg pre-generated with 2.69), many of which use libtool. For most of these there's no problem at all with the libtool in base; a handful use GNU libtool from ports. This is the first time I think anyone has suggested on OpenBSD mailing lists that the current version of autoconf needs newer than this. > I also understand the position of OpenBSD in discouraging use of GNU > Autotools. Stripping Autotools out of the package isn't my first > choice but it may come to that. Generally it's not preferred for things in base (though it's usually kept for things which are frequently updated from an outside source). For ports there's no discouragement.
