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From: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>
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Cc: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: /bin/sh doesn't run autoconf'ied configure scripts correctly
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Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 11:15:42AM +1300, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> 
>>Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
>>
>>>Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz> writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>>A related possibility is that you need to amend the include path for
>>>>aclocal correctly/differently. On 6.0R I get a sensible result out
>>>>of autogen.sh if I change the aclocal command to:
>>>>
>>>>run_or_die $ACLOCAL -I m4 -I /usr/local/share/aclocal
>>>
>>>
>>>this should not be necessary if autoconf was installed from ports
>>>(devel/gnu-autoconf).
>>>
>>>DES
>>
>>I'm using the autoconf259  and automake19 ports, this doctoring seems to 
>>be needed in some cases anyway - audacious and enlightenment CVS HEAD 
>>are the two examples I can recall.
> 
> 
> You don't want to use the numbered auto* ports for non-port
> development, but gnu-autoconf instead as ade said.
> 
> Kris

Ah - right, always wondered about when to use which, thanks for clearing 
that up!

Cheers

Mark