Date: 17 Oct 2005 18:09:38 +0200 From: sirola@fisica.unige.it To: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@uni-dortmund.de> Cc: enrico.sirola@gmail.com, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: autotools on freebsd Message-ID: <m3wtkc5dml.fsf@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <4353C512.9060400@uni-dortmund.de> References: <m364rw6uya.fsf@localhost.localdomain> <4353C512.9060400@uni-dortmund.de>
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Hello Matthias,
>>>>> "Matthias" == Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@uni-dortmund.de> writes:
Matthias> I'll tell you a trick (I fell into the same pit before):
Matthias> the corresponding ports are named gnu-autoconf (and
Matthias> similar) and you need to add
Matthias> /usr/local/gnu-autotools/bin (or something similar, I
Matthias> don't recall the exact spelling off-hand, use pkginfo -L
Matthias> to figure) to your PATH variable.
Matthias> Then you can use the regular autoreconf and friends
Matthias> without suffix. Those with the 259 or 19 suffix are for
Matthias> the ports system, those with gnu- in the port name are
Matthias> for us programmers.
argh! I went out crazy! Thanks a lot for the trick :-)
Matthias> It would be nice if this could be documented more
Matthias> clearly, or perhaps the auto* packages be renamed to
Matthias> ports-auto* and gnu-auto* to auto* to remove this
Matthias> confusion. I concede this is a larger change and cannot
Matthias> happen before 6.0.
Maybe a few lines on the porters' handbook in order to explain that
for non-port projects one should use /usr/local/gnu-autotools stuff
would help a lot.
Thanks again,
e.
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Enrico Sirola <enrico.sirola@gmail.com>
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