Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 14:01:30 -0400 From: Matthew Soffen <msoffen@iso-ne.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: automake19-1.9.5 Message-ID: <1116439290.4769.9.camel@msoffen.iso-ne.com> In-Reply-To: <20050518161015.GA94920@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <1116344389.10339.42.camel@msoffen.iso-ne.com> <20050518161015.GA94920@xor.obsecurity.org>
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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
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