ports/81113: lang/php5 reliant on outdated automake and autoconf versions

[Jeremy Chadwick]

>Number:         81113
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       lang/php5 reliant on outdated automake and autoconf versions
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon May 16 16:30:07 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jeremy Chadwick
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Parodius Networking
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD pentarou.parodius.com 4.11-STABLE FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #0: Thu May 12 04:37:52 PDT 2005 root at pentarou.parodius.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PENTAROU i386
>Description:
	Mainly a send-pr to induce discussion between ale@ and myself...

	There are portions of ports/Mk/bsd.php.mk (anything relating to PHP's
	extension support, executed via phpize) which explicitly requests old
	and outdated autoconf (v2.53) and automake (v1.5).

	Additionally, lang/php5/files/patch-scripts::phpize.in also relies
	specifically on aclocal15 and autoconf253.

	I changed the appropriate files to reflect aclocal19 and autoconf259,
	ditto with WANT_AUTOMAKE_VER=19 and WANT_AUTOCONF_VER=259, and numerous
	PHP extensions I tried built without any problems.  I did this on both
	5.3-STABLE and 4.11-STABLE.

	I assume some of the extensions don't work properly with older versions,
	but for those extensions, could one not override WANT_AUTOMAKE_VER and
	WANT_AUTOCONF_VER in lang/php5/Makefile.ext in the appropriate .ifdef
	section?

	Basically, I'm just trying to get rid of different versions of autoconf
	and automake on our systems, even though FreeBSD has done a beautiful
	job of segregating each version.
>How-To-Repeat:
	n/a
>Fix:
	Should be obvious.


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