FreeBSD Port: automake19-1.9.5

Matthew Soffen msoffen at iso-ne.com
Wed May 18 11:01:40 PDT 2005


Trust me.  The entire Linux HA team has expressed displeasure with the
auto tools team.

Too bad we couldn't just get something like there was for switching
between the /usr/bin/perl and /usr/local/bin/perl

Matt

On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 09:10 -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 11:39:49AM -0400, Matthew Soffen wrote:
> 
> > Would it be possible to have the package install either a symlink or a
> > hardlink for the specific files ? 
> 
> Unfortunately not.  This change was deliberate, because a lot of
> software will not build with the latest versions of auto*, which are
> unaccountably incompatible with older versions.  Using generic names
> would cause software to pick up versions other than the version they
> are known and intended to build with.
> 
> You're invited to express your opinions about the necessity of using
> these ugly hacks with the autotools developers :-)
> 
> Kris


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