On 12/12/06, Karel Kulhavy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi.
> You are kidding, aren't you ? No.
o.k.
> csh/tcsh uses setenv and sh/ksh/bash uses export No I mean explanation how the user obtains a list of available numbers and how to select from them.
Short answer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -l /usr/local/bin/autoconf-* -r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 4853 Jul 28 09:59 /usr/local/bin/autoconf-2.13 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 7686 Jun 27 16:38 /usr/local/bin/autoconf-2.57 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 7674 Jun 27 16:35 /usr/local/bin/autoconf-2.59 Or you can use pkg_info to get a more detailed output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ pkg_info autoconf Information for autoconf-2.13p0 Comment: automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms Description: Autoconf is an extensible package of m4 macros that produce shell scripts to automatically configure software source code packages. These scripts can adapt the packages to many kinds of UNIX-like systems without manual user intervention. Autoconf creates a [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ pkg_info autoconf | head -n 20 Information for autoconf-2.13p0 Comment: automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms Description: Autoconf is an extensible package of m4 macros that produce shell scripts to automatically configure software source code packages. These scripts can adapt the packages to many kinds of UNIX-like systems without manual user intervention. Autoconf creates a configuration script for a package from a template file that lists the operating system features that the package can use, in the form of m4 macro calls. The FSF would make you believe that only gnu-m4 can handle autoconf. This is no longer true. This package does not depend on gnu-m4. This is autoconf-2.13. The actual autoconf drivers for selecting autoconf version are in [... snipp ...]
> No, because you should have at least basic Un*x knowledge. I have a basic Unix knowledge. Do you think that someone who wrote 25% of a graphical web browser that runs on the following platforms:
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PMShell, AtheOS GUI, doesn't have a basic Unix knowledge?
Honestly, I dont care about that.
I don't understand what's the point in refusing to do this - this looks like some kind of OpenBSD script and it should be easy to change the text it prints, shouldn't? I guess the work will be minimal and the benefit will be obvious.
Sure. The file is not brand new: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ head /usr/local/bin/autoconf #! /bin/sh # $OpenBSD: meta.in,v 1.3 2004/11/08 22:00:09 mbalmer Exp $ # Copyright (c) 2003,2004 Marc Espie. # You can make the changes, update the corresponding package (metaauto-0.5) and commit the changes after testing. Andreas. -- Hobbes : Shouldn't we read the instructions? Calvin : Do I look like a sissy?