Fwd: CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/automake

Justin Sherrill justin at shiningsilence.com
Mon Jun 4 13:51:56 PDT 2012


We have texinfo 4.13 in DragonFly 3.0; automake 1.13, which is not yet
in pkgsrc, requires 4.9, from what I'm reading in the forwarded note
below.  Anyone want to update texinfo?


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Bernd Ernesti <netbsd at lists.veego.de>
Date: Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 4:43 PM
Subject: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/automake
To: pkgsrc-users at netbsd.org


On Sun, Jun 03, 2012 at 09:18:30PM +0000, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> Module Name:  pkgsrc
> Committed By: wiz
> Date:         Sun Jun  3 21:18:30 UTC 2012
>
> Modified Files:
>       pkgsrc/devel/automake: Makefile distinfo
>
> Log Message:
> Update to 1.12.1:
>
> New in 1.12.1:
>
> * WARNING: Future backward-incompatibilities!
>
[..]

>   - Starting from the next major Automake version (1.13), the rules to
>     build pdf, ps and dvi output from Texinfo input will use the '--tidy'
>     option by default.  Since such an option was introduced in Texinfo
>     4.9, this means that Makefiles generated by future Automake versions
>     will require at least that version of Texinfo.

That will be an issue with the texinfo version in NetBSD which is still 4.8.

Bernd





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