From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 14 02:04:32 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF9F216A4CE for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 02:04:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccimhc91.asp.att.net (sccimhc91.asp.att.net [63.240.76.165]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DCE843D5C for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 02:04:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@nbritton.org) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (12-223-129-46.client.insightbb.com[12.223.129.46]) by sccimhc91.asp.att.net (sccimhc91) with ESMTP id <20050114020431i9100bpin7e>; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 02:04:31 +0000 Message-ID: <41E728AD.2050000@nbritton.org> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:04:29 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041230) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Keith Bottner References: <20050113204932.2BAD643D54@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20050113204932.2BAD643D54@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1250; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: "Freebsd-Newbies@Freebsd. Org" Subject: Re: automake, autoconf compiling X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 02:04:32 -0000 Keith Bottner wrote: >First let me say that I am definitely a newbie to FreeBSD but not to Linux >or Windows. > >I am trying to get a development system setup and am having trouble >identifying how FreeBSD handles automake, autoconf and the like. >Specifically I am trying to get the Apache log4cxx source to compile and of >course I am running into problems with automake, aclocal, autoheader, >autoconf and libtoolize not being in the path. I did chase them down in the >/usr/local/libexec/automake18 and similar directories but placing them in >the path still generates errors (i.e. there continues to be things that are >missing at various stages). > >I guess my general question is: What is the standard way for setting up >FreeBSD to use these (GNU tools) with the least trouble across disparate >projects? > >I have never had this problem on Linux as they have always been properly >setup on install and I want to get FreeBSD going and do it the way that is >accepted as the standard so that later generalizing my project with autoconf >will be standardized as well. > >I appreciate any feedback and realize this is a rather broad question, but >hey I said I was new to FreeBSD. > > You do know about the ports (and packages) system, correct? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html