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 'auto
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 y
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
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 actua
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 han
---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 pkg_a
/handbook/ports-using.html
What are you attempting to install that requires autoconf?
Currently, I am running autoconf-2.59_2 which seems to do the trick.
T
- Original Message -
From: "Stefan Seefeld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 6:53 PM
Subject: w
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 'aut
