Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 23:58:24 -0500 From: "Philip M. Golllucci" <pgollucci@p6m7g8.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: where is autoconf Message-ID: <42269970.5020800@p6m7g8.com> In-Reply-To: <42268F70.7070208@sympatico.ca> References: <4226862E.30403@sympatico.ca> <20050303034141.GA89476@xor.obsecurity.org> <42268F70.7070208@sympatico.ca>
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Hi, You can symlink these as needed. I do it all the time. You will run into problems if you try to simlink aclocal/automake the /usr/local/share/aclocal19 and the libtool15.m4 runs into issues... autoconf by itself however will work no problem. To the ports maintainer, T do very much appreciate your work on the auto tools. :) Stefan Seefeld wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > >>> Well, I was looking for 'autoconf' in these files but didn't find it. >>> And indeed, even though I have 'autoconf-2.59_2' installed, all I have >>> is 'autoconf259', but not 'autoconf'. >> >> >> >> This is necessary because the autoconf developers don't understand why >> backwards compatibility is important for their tools (new versions >> like 2.59 cannot be used to build old applications that were written >> for e.g. 2.13, nor can multiple versions of autoconf be easily >> installed concurrently). > > > I'm aware of these (very unfortunate) incompatibilities, though I had > expected the problem to be dealt with differently (for example by > setting a symbolic link to the currently active version). > >> You can use the gnu-autoconf and related ports, which installs into >> /usr/local/gnu-autotools so they do not poison the build environment >> of other ports. YOu might have to play games with PATH or other >> variables to get your application to find them. > > > Ok, thanks for the explanation. > > Regards, > Stefan > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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