Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 07:25:07 -0400 From: Robert M.Zigweid <rzigweid@securesoftware.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Automake and Autoconf compatability issue. Message-ID: <9A46C48A-DF93-11D7-9CC9-00039310484E@securesoftware.com> In-Reply-To: <20030904225333.GA56800@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <A56869D4-DF01-11D7-9CC9-00039310484E@securesoftware.com> <20030904225333.GA56800@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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On Sep 4, 2003, at 6:53 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 02:00:19PM -0400, Robert M.Zigweid wrote: > >> Why is this cross-platform set of tools, being made less compatable >> than the origainal package? > > Because this wonderful cross-platform set of tools need to be munged > so that you can have multiple versions installed simultaneously > (different ports need different versions). > > Kris > This is an incorrect statement. The packages come with scripts that call the appropriate binary (the actual automake script etc). The actual binary is called (for example) automake-1.7, leaving plenty of room for having multiple versions of the tool. Granted, this may be a hack to support their wonderful lack of support for backwards compatability. The mangling in FreeBSD ports seems to me to be a worse hack, however.
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