From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 18 18:01:40 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 870FB16A4CE for ; Wed, 18 May 2005 18:01:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.iso-ne.com (mail.iso-ne.com [205.172.241.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C11B043D83 for ; Wed, 18 May 2005 18:01:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from msoffen@iso-ne.com) Received: (qmail 4299 invoked by uid 0); 18 May 2005 18:01:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO EXCHSULB.iso-ne.com) (10.145.10.106) by mail.iso-ne.com with SMTP; 18 May 2005 18:01:33 -0000 Received: from msoffen.iso-ne.com ([10.145.210.120]) by EXCHSULB.iso-ne.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Wed, 18 May 2005 14:01:31 -0400 Received: from msoffen.iso-ne.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by msoffen.iso-ne.com (8.13.1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j4II1VFY005463; Wed, 18 May 2005 14:01:31 -0400 Received: (from msoffen@localhost) by msoffen.iso-ne.com (8.13.1/8.12.11/Submit) id j4II1U1K005459; Wed, 18 May 2005 14:01:30 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: msoffen.iso-ne.com: msoffen set sender to msoffen@iso-ne.com using -f From: Matthew Soffen To: Kris Kennaway In-Reply-To: <20050518161015.GA94920@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <1116344389.10339.42.camel@msoffen.iso-ne.com> <20050518161015.GA94920@xor.obsecurity.org> Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 14:01:30 -0400 Message-Id: <1116439290.4769.9.camel@msoffen.iso-ne.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 (2.0.4-4) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 May 2005 18:01:31.0327 (UTC) FILETIME=[9EF8F4F0:01C55BD3] X-Scanned-By: RAE MPP/extblocker http://www.messagepartners.com X-Scanned-By: This message was scanned by MPP v.2 (www.messagepartners.com) X-Scanned-By: RAE MPP/Clamd http://www.messagepartners.com X-Scanned-By: RAE MPP/Mailshell http://www.messagepartners.com Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: automake19-1.9.5 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 18:01:40 -0000 Trust me. The entire Linux HA team has expressed displeasure with the auto tools team. Too bad we couldn't just get something like there was for switching between the /usr/bin/perl and /usr/local/bin/perl Matt On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 09:10 -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 11:39:49AM -0400, Matthew Soffen wrote: > > > Would it be possible to have the package install either a symlink or a > > hardlink for the specific files ? > > Unfortunately not. This change was deliberate, because a lot of > software will not build with the latest versions of auto*, which are > unaccountably incompatible with older versions. Using generic names > would cause software to pick up versions other than the version they > are known and intended to build with. > > You're invited to express your opinions about the necessity of using > these ugly hacks with the autotools developers :-) > > Kris