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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 10:13:46 -0800
From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
To: xorp-cvs@icir.org
Subject: Re: [Xorp-cvs] XORP cvs commit: xorp
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On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 05:56:09PM +0000, Bruce Simpson wrote:
> Log message:
> Allow the autotools binaries used to be overridden
> using environment variables, for the benefit of those
> who may wish to maintain external builds of XORP (such
> as the FreeBSD ports maintainers).
The main motivation for this change is to enable package maintainers
to specify explicit paths to particular versions of the GNU autotools
installed on a build system. This is necessary because we use a 'known
good' combination of GNU autotools, and they may not always be installed
in the same place on each system where XORP may be built; and those
same maintainers may need to fine-tune the configure.in script, which
in turn requires a re-run of bootstrap to take effect.
This change becomes especially important if we choose to use libtool
to maintain our libraries, as libtool is especially sensitive to the
versions of GNU autotools in use.
We would hope, of course, that they would fine-tune the fine-tuning,
and push any such required changes for portability back upstream to us.
BMS
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