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On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 11:51:02AM -0400, Matthew Soffen wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 09:41 -0500, Scot Hetzel wrote:
>=20
> > On 5/19/05, Matthew Soffen <msoffen@iso-ne.com> wrote:
> > > I am curious though, why did FreeBSD ports use things like automake19
> > > instead of the way Linux does it with automake-1.9 ?
> > >=20
> > Probably because we thought of it first, and Linux tried to improve on =
it. ;-)
>=20
>=20
> Then there is one more thing you need to "improve" too.=20
>=20
> Some of the tools do things where they rebuild *.am files , the tools
> are looking for automake-{VER} ,
>=20
> That probably should be patched to use automake19 instead of
> automake-1.9, yes ?

If it would cause enough net simplification, maybe.  It's a lot of
work to convert ports over though, so someone needs to want it enough
to do that work :-)

Kris

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