Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 20:35:20 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@sigpipe.cz> To: Matthew Soffen <msoffen@iso-ne.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: automake19-1.9.5 Message-ID: <20050518183519.GB16367@isis.sigpipe.cz> In-Reply-To: <1116439290.4769.9.camel@msoffen.iso-ne.com> References: <1116344389.10339.42.camel@msoffen.iso-ne.com> <20050518161015.GA94920@xor.obsecurity.org> <1116439290.4769.9.camel@msoffen.iso-ne.com>
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# msoffen@iso-ne.com / 2005-05-18 14:01:30 -0400:
> 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 :-)
>
> 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
You're approaching the problem from the wrong angle. FreeBSD isn't
isolated in its approach, Debian reportedly does the same thing,
and software authors begin to acknowledge this workaround, see e. g.
Subversion ($AUTOCONF):
http://svn.collab.net/viewcvs/svn/trunk/autogen.sh?view=markup
or PHP:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-dev&m=111196174605412&w=2
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