Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:42:49 +0100 From: Adam J Richardson <fatman.uk@gmail.com> To: Albert.Shih@obspm.fr Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: autoconf261 Message-ID: <46ACEDB9.3000507@crackmonkey.us> In-Reply-To: <20070728114722.GA27644@pcjas.obspm.fr> References: <20070728114722.GA27644@pcjas.obspm.fr>
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Albert Shih wrote: > Hi all > > I've strange problem with autoconf 261 ports. > > He install autoconf under > > /usr/local/bin/autoconf261 > instead > > /usr/local/bin/autoconf-261 > > It's ports bug ? or it's me do something wrong ? > > Regards. > > Albert SHIH Hi Albert, I've just had a very weird afternoon investigating autoconf and automake. They seem pretty cool but I must digest some more manuals and tutorials before I understand them well enough to write my own configure.ac and Makefile.am files. With the help of a tutorial I wrote a brilliant configure.ac/Makefile.am combination and managed to get from "helloworld.cc" to "/usr/local/bin/hello" in a few easy steps. :D It'll be harder for my larger projects though... I had some trouble actually locating the files automake19, aclocal19 and autoconf259. I thought they would be called automake, aclocal and autoconf. Guess I was wrong. Apparently it's FreeBSD's way of keeping several versions of these programs concurrently. It would be handy if the ports installed symlinks to the most recent versions, instead of me having to add some aliases to /etc/csh.cshrc. Oh, don't know if this will be a problem for you, but unless my ports tree is out of date, the latest automake relies on autoconf v2.59 rather than the latest autoconf, v2.61. Adam J Richardson
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