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Re: Announcing the pkgsrc-2008Q1 Branch

Re: Announcing the pkgsrc-2008Q1 Branch
Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:59:01 -040
Hasso Tepper wrote:
> Note that devel/m4 is now broken in DragonFly because of "security
fix" 
> pulled up from HEAD with two days during release. Fixing it is beyond my 
> knowledge, so please someone have a look.
> 
> Even having regular builds doesn't save us from this kind of stuff :(.
>   
> 

Not knowing the intricacies of various m4 implementations, it seems like 
we have a GNU mode with '-g'.. is there any reason devel/m4 is really 
needed for DragonFly? (e.g. some kind of pkgsrc wrapper makefile could 
be used around the system m4 instead?)

I suppose some tools would need to be modified, but for those things 
just needing 'gnu' m4 for *builds* ..

just a thought..

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