autoconf 2.60 support

[Ade Lovett]

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On Aug 09, 2006, at 12:36 , Stanislav Sedov wrote:
> There is one important change in 2.60 - mandir and infodir
> now point by default to ${prefix}/share/man and ${prefix}/share/info
> accordingly, that differs slightly from FreeBSD mtree. So we need
> to add --mandir=${PREFIX}/man and --infodir=${PREFIX}/info to
> configure args.

No need.  Things like that will get patched in devel/autoconf260 as  
and when I add it.

However, there are a number of things ahead of that, most notably:

1.  Identifying ports that use autoconf-2.53 and migrating them to 2.59
2.  Reworking all of autoconf* and automake* to install in their  
"normal" locations
3.  Introduction of a devel/autotool-wrapper port to considerably  
reduce complexity (Gentoo is being used as the basis for this)

It's going to take "a while", particularly given the widespread use  
of these ports, but the end result will be an autotools system that  
will be *identical* in manner (for both ports and non-ports use) to  
Linux distributions.

- -aDe

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