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Date:      Wed, 19 Aug 1998 14:22:41 +0200
From:      Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
To:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Some -devel ports break autoconf (gtk11 spotted)
Message-ID:  <19980819142241.A29002@cons.org>

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When having gtk and gtk11 installed, you have gtk.m4 and gtk11.m4 in
/usr/local/share/aclocal. 

This breaks autoconf (more specially, aclocal), since both files
define variables of the same name.

The proper fix in the line of the usual stable/current port way would
be to change the names of all variables in gtk11.m4 from gtk to
gtk11. This would put a lot of work on the shoulders for everyone
trying to compile something against gtk11.

So I think it would be more wise to create a
$(PREFIX)/share/aclocal.current/ directory, where ports with possibly
conflicting aclocal parts could place them and maintainers of
depending ports could easily address them.

While I'm at it, I also though it would be a good idea to create a
whoel $(PREFIX-DEVEL) directory structure, so that accessing two
version of one port would be easier. That is obviously limited to two
versions of a port, but would make compiling non-port software against
devel ports (i.e. GNOME against gtk11) much easier. Has this been
discussed before?

Martin
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