From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 19 14:12:39 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 8878116A4CE for ; Thu, 19 May 2005 14:12:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.iso-ne.com (mail.iso-ne.com [205.172.241.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 37DA243DB4 for ; Thu, 19 May 2005 14:12:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from msoffen@iso-ne.com) Received: (qmail 2539 invoked by uid 0); 19 May 2005 14:12:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO EXCHSULB.iso-ne.com) (10.145.10.106) by mail.iso-ne.com with SMTP; 19 May 2005 14:12:35 -0000 Received: from msoffen.iso-ne.com ([10.145.210.120]) by EXCHSULB.iso-ne.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Thu, 19 May 2005 10:12:33 -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 j4JECXFh005602; Thu, 19 May 2005 10:12:33 -0400 Received: (from msoffen@localhost) by msoffen.iso-ne.com (8.13.1/8.12.11/Submit) id j4JECT1l005598; Thu, 19 May 2005 10:12:29 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: msoffen.iso-ne.com: msoffen set sender to msoffen@iso-ne.com using -f From: Matthew Soffen To: Miguel Mendez In-Reply-To: <20050519160428.25a1e630.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> 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> <20050519160428.25a1e630.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 10:12:29 -0400 Message-Id: <1116511949.4994.27.camel@msoffen.iso-ne.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 (2.0.4-4) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 May 2005 14:12:33.0931 (UTC) FILETIME=[CD426DB0:01C55C7C] 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 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: ports@freebsd.org cc: Alexander Leidinger cc: kris@obsecurity.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: Thu, 19 May 2005 14:12:39 -0000 On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 16:04 +0200, Miguel Mendez wrote: > On Thu, 19 May 2005 10:52:16 +0200 > Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > > Matthew Soffen wrote: > > > > > Too bad we couldn't just get something like there was for switching > > > between the /usr/bin/perl and /usr/local/bin/perl > > > > I use this work-around: > > - create a directory (e.g. beneath your src directory) where you create the > > neccesary symlinks > > - add this directory in front of your path when you're working on something > > 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, That is good but it would be a real pain in the butt since 99% of the time I'm not doing something from ports. I am curious though, why did FreeBSD ports use things like automake19 instead of the way Linux does it with automake-1.9 ? Matt