From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 10 22:19:16 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2218116A4CE for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 22:19:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from top.daemonsecurity.com (FW-182-254.go.retevision.es [62.174.254.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1682643D5C for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 22:19:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from [192.168.0.32] (charm.daemonsecurity.com [192.168.0.32]) by top.daemonsecurity.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B68FFD008; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 23:19:13 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41BA20DE.8080902@locolomo.org> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 23:19:10 +0100 From: Erik Norgaard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041114 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us, da, it, es MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E1rio_Gamito?= References: <41BA05CC.5060601@netual.pt> In-Reply-To: <41BA05CC.5060601@netual.pt> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Totally lost X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 22:19:16 -0000 Mário Gamito wrote: > Hi, > > When i install FreeBSD 5.3, libtool, automake and autoconf don't get > installed. > > I upgrade the ports. > After that is the total confusion. > > One program wants libtools version x, another, y ando so on. > Some thing to automake and autoconf. > > How do i solve this mess ? FreeBSD is cool enough to allow multiple versions of libtool and autoconf etc to be installed, just as you can have multiple versions of Perl. By default one version is used, but the others are used if you specify the version extension, eg. on my system, /usr/local/bin/autoconf is version 2.53, while I can get 2.59 or 2.13 by calling autoconf259 autoconf213 respectively, similar for the other autotools and libtool. Obviously, there is a reason for having multiple versions installed, namely because some ports still relies on old versions, while others requires features in new experimental versions. Unless the developers settle on one version of these tools, you will have multiple versions installed. If it really annoys you to see that they are there, they are AFAIK only used for compiling, linking etc. so once you have installed your system you can deinstall these programs. But, there is no need to, and they will be reinstalled when you try to upgrade your ports. It should only bother you if you are trying to write your own ports, or are doing other development. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/2004071206.crt Subject ID: A9:76:7A:ED:06:95:2B:8D:48:97:CE:F2:3F:42:C8:F2:22:DE:4C:B9 Fingerprint: 4A:E8:63:38:46:F6:9A:5D:B4:DC:29:41:3F:62:D3:0A:73:25:67:C2