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Date:      Thu, 19 May 2005 16:04:28 +0200
From:      Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org>
To:        Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
Cc:        kris@obsecurity.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Port: automake19-1.9.5
Message-ID:  <20050519160428.25a1e630.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050519105216.dt9hta6z28k4o48g@netchild.homeip.net>
References:  <1116344389.10339.42.camel@msoffen.iso-ne.com> <20050518161015.GA94920@xor.obsecurity.org> <1116439290.4769.9.camel@msoffen.iso-ne.com> <20050519105216.dt9hta6z28k4o48g@netchild.homeip.net>

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On Thu, 19 May 2005 10:52:16 +0200
Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> wrote:

> Matthew Soffen <msoffen@iso-ne.com> wrote:
>=20
> > Too bad we couldn't just get something like there was for switching
> > between the /usr/bin/perl and /usr/local/bin/perl
>=20
> I use this work-around:
> - create a directory (e.g. beneath your src directory) where you create t=
he
> neccesary symlinks
> - add this directory in front of your path when you're working on somethi=
ng
> which needs the autotools

That sounds like the buildlink system used by NetBSD's pkgsrc, except
they do that for both executables and include files. I wonder if the
FreeBSD ports could use something like that.

Cheers,
--=20
Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org>
http://www.energyhq.es.eu.org
PGP Key: 0xDC8514F1


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