From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 5 20:19:07 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98E5B16A468 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2007 20:19:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamesh@lanl.gov) Received: from mailwasher.lanl.gov (mailwasher.lanl.gov [204.121.3.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A0BF13C4A3 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2007 20:19:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamesh@lanl.gov) Received: from mailrelay3.lanl.gov (mailrelay3.lanl.gov [128.165.4.104]) by mailwasher.lanl.gov (8.13.8/8.13.8/(ccn-5)) with ESMTP id lA5KItT5007011; Mon, 5 Nov 2007 13:18:55 -0700 Received: from oppie-mail.lanl.gov (oppie-mail.lanl.gov [128.165.4.123]) by mailrelay3.lanl.gov (8.13.8/8.13.8/(ccn-5)) with ESMTP id lA5KIsq4029467; Mon, 5 Nov 2007 13:18:54 -0700 Received: from [128.165.86.10] (secretariat.lanl.gov [128.165.86.10]) by oppie-mail.lanl.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DF201F8002; Mon, 5 Nov 2007 13:18:49 -0700 (MST) From: James To: Pollywog In-Reply-To: <200711051948.35173.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> References: <200711051948.35173.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratories Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:19:35 +0000 Message-Id: <1194272375.44119.0.camel@secretariat.lanl.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-CTN-5-MailScanner-Information: Please see http://network.lanl.gov/email/virus-scan.php X-CTN-5-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-CTN-5-MailScanner-From: jamesh@lanl.gov X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: multiple autoconf versions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: jamesh@lanl.gov List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:19:07 -0000 On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 19:48 +0000, Pollywog wrote: > I am running FreeBSD 6.2 and I discovered that I have four versions of > autoconf installed. > > autoconf-2.13.000227_6 Automatically configure source code on many Un*x > platforms > autoconf-2.53_4 Automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms > autoconf-2.59_3 Automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms > autoconf-2.61_2 Automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms > > > Should I remove any of them? I know that in Linux, having more than one > version of autoconf can cause problems, but I am not certain of what to do > here. > > thanks > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Reading /usr/ports/UPDATING says that yes, you *can*, but whether you *should* is another issue. I had a machine, though, that was crapping out on portupgrades, for which removing old versions of autoconf made things simpler to resolve.