Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 10:12:29 -0400 From: Matthew Soffen <msoffen@iso-ne.com> To: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> Cc: kris@obsecurity.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: automake19-1.9.5 Message-ID: <1116511949.4994.27.camel@msoffen.iso-ne.com> In-Reply-To: <20050519160428.25a1e630.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> References: <1116344389.10339.42.camel@msoffen.iso-ne.com> <20050518161015.GA94920@xor.obsecurity.org> <1116439290.4769.9.camel@msoffen.iso-ne.com> <20050519105216.dt9hta6z28k4o48g@netchild.homeip.net> <20050519160428.25a1e630.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org>
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On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 16:04 +0200, Miguel Mendez wrote: > On Thu, 19 May 2005 10:52:16 +0200 > Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> wrote: > > > Matthew Soffen <msoffen@iso-ne.com> wrote: > > > > > Too bad we couldn't just get something like there was for switching > > > between the /usr/bin/perl and /usr/local/bin/perl > > > > I use this work-around: > > - create a directory (e.g. beneath your src directory) where you create the > > neccesary symlinks > > - add this directory in front of your path when you're working on something > > which needs the autotools > > That sounds like the buildlink system used by NetBSD's pkgsrc, except > they do that for both executables and include files. I wonder if the > FreeBSD ports could use something like that. > > Cheers, That is good but it would be a real pain in the butt since 99% of the time I'm not doing something from ports. I am curious though, why did FreeBSD ports use things like automake19 instead of the way Linux does it with automake-1.9 ? Matt
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