Re: NEW: devel/autoconf-archive

2015-11-17 Thread Anthony J. Bentley
Hi Nigel, You've convinced me that this probably shouldn't go into the tree. Nigel Taylor writes: > If you look in git repositories like github, the tar ball created > automatically is not the same as the tar ball distributed, they have > some process for creating the distribution tar ball and

Re: NEW: devel/autoconf-archive

2015-11-17 Thread Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas
"Anthony J. Bentley" writes: > Hi Nigel, Hi folks, > You've convinced me that this probably shouldn't go into the tree. > > Nigel Taylor writes: >> If you look in git repositories like github, the tar ball created >> automatically is not the same as the tar ball

Re: NEW: devel/autoconf-archive

2015-11-16 Thread Nigel Taylor
On 11/15/15 10:02, Anthony J. Bentley wrote: > Hi, > > The GNU Autoconf Archive is a collection of more than 500 macros for GNU > Autoconf that have been contributed as free software by friendly supporters > of the cause from all over the Internet. > > I've encountered software in the wild (not

Re: NEW: devel/autoconf-archive

2015-11-16 Thread Anthony J. Bentley
Hi Jérémie, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas writes: > If we install those macros in share/aclocal, then they will be available > directly via autoreconf and friends, right? I'm not sure whether it is > desirable, it's a lot of code and autotools are already ugly enough... > Do you know of other OSes

NEW: devel/autoconf-archive

2015-11-15 Thread Anthony J. Bentley
Hi, The GNU Autoconf Archive is a collection of more than 500 macros for GNU Autoconf that have been contributed as free software by friendly supporters of the cause from all over the Internet. I've encountered software in the wild (not yet in ports) that uses some of the C++11 macros. ok? --

Re: NEW: devel/autoconf-archive

2015-11-15 Thread Marc Espie
On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 06:30:48PM +0100, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas wrote: > "Anthony J. Bentley" writes: > > > Hi, > > Hi, > > > The GNU Autoconf Archive is a collection of more than 500 macros for GNU > > Autoconf that have been contributed as free software by friendly

Re: NEW: devel/autoconf-archive

2015-11-15 Thread Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas
"Anthony J. Bentley" writes: > Hi, Hi, > The GNU Autoconf Archive is a collection of more than 500 macros for GNU > Autoconf that have been contributed as free software by friendly supporters > of the cause from all over the Internet. > > I've encountered software in the