Re: where is autoconf

2005-03-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-03-02 23:15, Stefan Seefeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Someone whose attribution has been trimmed, wrote: Well, I was looking for 'autoconf' in these files but didn't find it. And indeed, even though I have 'autoconf-2.59_2' installed, all I have is 'autoconf259', but

where is autoconf

2005-03-02 Thread Stefan Seefeld
hi there, I'm quite new to freebsd, so please forgive my ignorance. I'v just installed freebsd on a free partition, and I try to get familiar with the system. Ultimately I'd like to try to port applications I develop on linux to freebsd. The first issue I run into is that I'm unable to find an

Re: where is autoconf

2005-03-02 Thread Thomas Foster
Subject: where is autoconf hi there, I'm quite new to freebsd, so please forgive my ignorance. I'v just installed freebsd on a free partition, and I try to get familiar with the system. Ultimately I'd like to try to port applications I develop on linux to freebsd. The first issue I run

Re: where is autoconf

2005-03-02 Thread abu khaled
---for example if you want to install autoconf version 2.59 cd /usr/ports/devel/autoconf259 make clean make install ---the port well then be downladed and compiled/installed ---to uninstall cd /usr/ports/devel/autoconf259 make deinstall ---you can also install a pre-compiled version using

Re: where is autoconf

2005-03-02 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Hi Thomas, Did you install any of these ports of autoconf? yes, autoconf-2.59_2 is currently installed. Remember the ports tree is a skeleton of potential applications you can install, they are not the actual installed apps themselves.. be sure and read the Ports/Packages section of the

Re: where is autoconf

2005-03-02 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 10:36:14PM -0500, Stefan Seefeld wrote: Hi Thomas, Did you install any of these ports of autoconf? yes, autoconf-2.59_2 is currently installed. Remember the ports tree is a skeleton of potential applications you can install, they are not the actual installed

Re: where is autoconf

2005-03-02 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Kris Kennaway wrote: Well, I was looking for 'autoconf' in these files but didn't find it. And indeed, even though I have 'autoconf-2.59_2' installed, all I have is 'autoconf259', but not 'autoconf'. This is necessary because the autoconf developers don't understand why backwards compatibility is

Re: where is autoconf

2005-03-02 Thread Philip M. Golllucci
Hi, You can symlink these as needed. I do it all the time. You will run into problems if you try to simlink aclocal/automake the /usr/local/share/aclocal19 and the libtool15.m4 runs into issues... autoconf by itself however will work no problem. To the ports maintainer, T do very much appreciate