Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 23:15:44 -0500 From: Stefan Seefeld <seefeld@sympatico.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: where is autoconf Message-ID: <42268F70.7070208@sympatico.ca> In-Reply-To: <20050303034141.GA89476@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <4226862E.30403@sympatico.ca> <20050303034141.GA89476@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: >>Well, I was looking for 'autoconf' in these files but didn't find it. >>And indeed, even though I have 'autoconf-2.59_2' installed, all I have >>is 'autoconf259', but not 'autoconf'. > > > This is necessary because the autoconf developers don't understand why > backwards compatibility is important for their tools (new versions > like 2.59 cannot be used to build old applications that were written > for e.g. 2.13, nor can multiple versions of autoconf be easily > installed concurrently). I'm aware of these (very unfortunate) incompatibilities, though I had expected the problem to be dealt with differently (for example by setting a symbolic link to the currently active version). > You can use the gnu-autoconf and related ports, which installs into > /usr/local/gnu-autotools so they do not poison the build environment > of other ports. YOu might have to play games with PATH or other > variables to get your application to find them. Ok, thanks for the explanation. Regards, Stefan
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