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Date:      Thu, 19 May 2005 11:51:02 -0400
From:      Matthew Soffen <msoffen@iso-ne.com>
To:        Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com>
Cc:        kris@obsecurity.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Port: automake19-1.9.5
Message-ID:  <1116517862.5492.15.camel@msoffen.iso-ne.com>
In-Reply-To: <790a9fff05051907418391836@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 09:41 -0500, Scot Hetzel wrote:

> On 5/19/05, Matthew Soffen <msoffen@iso-ne.com> wrote:
> > I am curious though, why did FreeBSD ports use things like automake19
> > instead of the way Linux does it with automake-1.9 ?
> > 
> Probably because we thought of it first, and Linux tried to improve on it. ;-)


Then there is one more thing you need to "improve" too. 

Some of the tools do things where they rebuild *.am files , the tools
are looking for automake-{VER} ,

That probably should be patched to use automake19 instead of
automake-1.9, yes ?

Matt



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