> In other cases it is just the easiest way to make the package buildable > with pkgsrc but is very hard to maintain in the long term because it cannot > get integrated in the original source. In those cases, The Right Thing To > Do (tm) would be to add some configurable option (eg, > "--path-to-foo=/somewhere/pkgsrc/foo" for autoconf scripts) and submit > _this_ patch to the software author. A few weeks ago I've counted up a number of patches in autoconf-based projects in pkgsrc. About 54% (!!!) of them contain patches either in Makefile* or in configure* files. Conclusion: The Right Thing To Do (TM) is to ask upstream maintainer to NOT use autoshit at all ;-) Autoconf and automake are too hard to most developers. They are overdesigned, are based upon bad idea etc. -- Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.