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On 2005-04-19 08:26, Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> wrote:
>On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 10:33 +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
>>Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes:
>>> gnu-auto* are for non-ports usage (only) - they don't mangle the
>>> installed filenames to allow coexistence of multiple versions.
>>
>> It's slightly backwards, though.  What we should do is have
>> devel/auto* for non-ports usage, installed in /usr/local/bin, and
>> devel/ports-auto* for ports usage, installed out of the way.
>
> Yes!
>
> Working on 3rd party autotooled software outside of ports regularly is
> miserable on FreeBSD.

I usually get around this by installing a local version of the autotools
in /opt/autotools and adding /opt/autotools/{,s}bin before /usr/local in
my PATH.

This has worked remarkably well for more than a year now, for software
that has to run on FreeBSD, Linux and Solaris.