Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 14:30:02 +0800 From: "Al.Aeefyu" <aeefyu@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Handling automake and autoconf versions Message-ID: <793eaa52040704233053c44f48@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi there! How do I safely handle automake/autoconf versions built from ports?? Recently, some of my port builds (x11/kde3 specifically) failed because automake and autoconf has been MOVED. Do I absolutely have to wait for the maintainers to update the ports' Makefiles? There are references to USE_AUTOCONF_VER=* and USE_AUTOMAKE_VER=*, but unless I am mistaken, these are mainly useful for port maintainers only. Can I override them safely, say .. modifying the Makefiles myself? A "pkg_info -R autoconf\*" lists many versions of autoconf in my system. Can I simply delete the unused ones? Same goes for "pkg_info -R automake\*" --- output follows: [root@roxanne: ports] # pkg_info -R autoconf\* Information for autoconf-2.53_1: Information for autoconf-2.57_1: Required by: automake-1.7.9_1 kde-3.2.3 kdevelop-3.0.4 [root@roxanne: ports] # pkg_info -R automake\* Information for automake-1.5,1: Information for automake-1.7.9_1: Required by: kde-3.2.3 kdevelop-3.0.4 Information for automake14-1.4.5_9: -- ------------------- aeefyu -------------------
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