From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 11 05:04:22 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E804616A41A for ; Sun, 11 Jun 2006 05:04:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from buhnux@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69A8F43D46 for ; Sun, 11 Jun 2006 05:04:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from buhnux@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id e30so1251354pya for ; Sat, 10 Jun 2006 22:04:20 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=LbXW5abJNGOfMnqWIJUVlpof9O8HnmYYfILoVW5IIlxpKvEvwk4zEDkC9cNJeaKFoKhmTrdfmywsySEWibYZeDQv5UiDyqNdp2SBTci+lRSFdIWPFe07s1axOD88+NruX4qUl0iOWVaDxoH2VOC+YBwqmXh8dWqnGdLdU5FBF7U= Received: by 10.35.20.14 with SMTP id x14mr5297978pyi; Sat, 10 Jun 2006 22:04:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.87.15 with HTTP; Sat, 10 Jun 2006 22:04:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 01:04:20 -0400 From: "michael johnson" Sender: buhnux@gmail.com To: Dave In-Reply-To: <00b301c68d0f$d1984140$0200a8c0@satellite> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <00b301c68d0f$d1984140$0200a8c0@satellite> X-Google-Sender-Auth: b7c9be466a224494 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: multiple versions of development ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 05:04:22 -0000 On 6/11/06, Dave wrote: > > Hello, > I've got a 6.1 box that i'm trying to install some software on for > development. The software needs autoconf, automake, autoheader, etc. which > has been installed in multiple versions autoconf213, 253, 259, the same > for > automake etc. I created symlinks from the say autoconf259 to autoconf so > it > would be found by the configure process, but was wondering if there was a > better way, such as some option to add to make.conf so that all ports > utilize a specific version of autoconf or automake as the case may be? > Thanks. check out ports/devel/configgen , it handles version numbers auto and works most of the time. Michael Dave. > > _______________________________________________ > 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" >