A ports freeze means that commits will be few and far between and only by approval.

Number of commits found: 33

Update CONFIGURE_ARGS for how we pass CONFIGURE_TARGET to configure script.
Specifically, newer autoconf (> 2.13) has different semantic of the
configure target. In short, one should use --build=CONFIGURE_TARGET
instead of CONFIGURE_TARGET directly. Otherwise, you will get a warning
and the old semantic may be removed in later autoconf releases.

To workaround this issue, many ports hack the CONFIGURE_TARGET variable
so that it contains the ``--build='' prefix.

To solve this issue, under the fact that some ports still have
configure script generated by the old autoconf, we use runtime detection
in the do-configure target so that the proper argument can be used.

Changes to Mk/*:
 - Add runtime detection magic in bsd.port.mk

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Major autotools-related update:

        automake        1.10   -> 1.10.1
        gettext         0.16.1 -> 0.17
        libtool         1.5.24 -> 1.5.26
        m4              1.4.9  -> 1.4.11

Please see ports/UPDATING entry 20080605 for further information.

PR:             123450
Tested by:      Full -exp package building run
Thanks to:      linimon, pav
Approved by:    portmgr

Update to 1.5.24

- Set --mandir and --infodir in CONFIGURE_ARGS if the configure script
  supports them.  This is determined by running ``configure --help'' in
  do-configure target and set the shell variable _LATE_CONFIGURE_ARGS
  which is then passed to CONFIGURE_ARGS.
- Remove --mandir and --infodir in ports' Makefile where applicable
  Few ports use REINPLACE_CMD to achieve the same effect, remove them too.
- Correct some manual pages location from PREFIX/man to MANPREFIX/man
- Define INFO_PATH where necessary
- Document that .info files are installed in a subdirectory relative to
  PREFIX/INFO_PATH and slightly change add-plist-info to use INFO_PATH and
  subdirectory detection.

PR:             ports/111470
Approved by:    portmgr
Discussed with: stas (Mk/*), gerald (info related stuffs)
Tested by:      pointyhat exp run

I meant to revert the previous commit, not change the assignment to
something else.

Pointed out by:         mezz

I do not appreciate the attempt to play politics with the reassignment of
maintainership of these two files.  I insist that further commits be run
through portmgr@ first.

Hat:            portmgr

Take maintainership.

Approved by:    maintainer timeout (16 days)

* Correctly patch devel/libltdl15 with the upstream hack to
  prevent eg: gnucash from taking several aeons to start up.

* Hack around the fact that the above then wants to call various
  autotools to rebuild parts of the build infrastructure which,
  depending on the ports installed can cause things to fail in
  weird and wonderful ways.

Remove massive overheads from loading programs that use many
libtool-generated shared libraries by forcing libtool into understanding
that FreeBSD can correctly handle shared library dependencies.

This code already exists in the libtool CVS repository but without knowing
the release schedule (if any) for a new libtool 1.5.x series, and the
exceptional performance gains (gnucash for example uses 122 shared libraries
and with things rebuilt now starts up in ~10 seconds as opposed to 15
*minutes*).  Further, a number of people have assisted in extensive testing
of this code in a series of different environments, so I am therefore
adding this patch to the tree.

PR:             94826
Submitted by:   Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
Tested by:      too many to list - thank you all

Remove USE_REINPLACE from all categories starting with D

Conversion to a single libtool environment.

Approved by:    portmgr (kris)

Fix pthread handling

Submitted by:   marcus

Update to 1.5.22

Update to 1.5.20

Update to 1.5.18
More robust -pthread hack obtained from dfports.

Tested with:    full build of x11/gnome2 and x11/kde3

Purge WANT_{LIBTOOL,AUTOCONF,AUTOMAKE}_RUN

The versioned autotools are now strictly for building other ports in the tree.
Likewise, the gnu- autotools are for runtime dependencies for IDEs, and others,
where unmodified cross-platform capabilities are desired.

All that we see or seem, is but a dream, within a dream.

Take back maintainership.  I'll be scouring the PR database shortly,
if I miss any, or someone beats me to it, please feel free to reassign
appropriately.

At Kris's request, back out the MACHINE_ARCH spelling correction until
after 5.4-RELEASE.

Assist getting more ports working on AMD64 by obeying the
Ports Collection documentation and use 'ARCH' rather than 'MACHINE_ARCH'.

Add a patch to support gnome 2.10 sharedlib version.
Patch made by ahze limited testing done by me.

Obtained from:  libtool cvs.

Relinquish maintainership.  I no longer have the time, energy,
or interest to look after these things any more.

To whomever picks these up, I salute you.  I'll reset the relevant
PRs to ports-bugs in a couple of weeks if no-one has taken over
maintainership.

Farewell, autotool hell.

Too clever for my own good.  Unbreak libltdl15.

Submitted by:   sf

Update to 1.5.10, use INFO, and other minor cleanups.

Update to 1.5.8

Long-overdue cosmetic cleanups.

Autotools cleanup.  Remove autoconf257 (259), automake17 (18), and
libtool14 (13/15).

PR:             67768
Submitted by:   ade
Approved by:    4-exp bento runs (thanks, kris!)

Update to 1.5.6

Fix pkg-plist.

Reported by:    many
Typo by:        ade

Symlink vulnerability:  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/352333
Fix:                    http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/352519

PR:             ports/62786
Submitted by:   eik

Minor COMMENT cosmetic changes

Switch pre-everything: target to pre-everything::

PR:             ports/58148 (partial)
Submitted by:   Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com>

Repoint to known-good copies of libtool distfiles, prior to the FSF
ftp.gnu.org compromise and resultant trashing of lots of files.

Why they haven't gotten things back into a proper state yet is an
entirely different question.

Upgrade to libtool 1.5 after repo-copy.

Number of commits found: 33

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