From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 24 20:29:47 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB754106567A for ; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:29:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from ethic.thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE1638FC1F for ; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:29:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by ethic.thought.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o6OKTiHF006334; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:29:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:29:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:29:43 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Lowell Gilbert Message-ID: <20100724202943.GA6335@thought.org> References: <20100724005105.GA22574@thought.org> <44vd84x347.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44vd84x347.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 24 years of service to the Unix community. Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: popt-1.50 or better?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:29:47 -0000 On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 12:21:12PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Gary Kline writes: > > > hey y'all, > > > > there is a program called libots [or ots] that acts to summarize text > > that i'd like to port to freebsd. i grabbed the src from scourceforge > > days ago and found that i need a later version of popt than we have. > > we've got v 1.14 of popt and the configure script from libots says that > > 1.5 is required. i've stumbled around but haven't figured out where to > > grab the newer version. > > 1.14 is the latest version. 1.5 is considerably older. how can 1.50 be older than 1.14? -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.83a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org 99 44/100% Guaranteed Novel