From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 3 04:58:27 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C992516A4CE for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 04:58:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.liquidation.com (mail.liquidation.com [65.196.108.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2232F43D4C for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 04:58:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pgollucci@p6m7g8.com) Received: from [10.0.0.82] (everything.liquidation.com [65.196.108.171]) by mail.liquidation.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j23519ir025345 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 00:01:09 -0500 Message-ID: <42269970.5020800@p6m7g8.com> Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 23:58:24 -0500 From: "Philip M. Golllucci" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4226862E.30403@sympatico.ca> <20050303034141.GA89476@xor.obsecurity.org> <42268F70.7070208@sympatico.ca> In-Reply-To: <42268F70.7070208@sympatico.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (score=-4.72, required 5, AWL 0.18, BAYES_00 -4.90) Subject: Re: where is autoconf X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 04:58:27 -0000 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"