FreeBSD Port: automake19-1.9.5

[Matthew Soffen]

On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 16:04 +0200, Miguel Mendez wrote:

> On Thu, 19 May 2005 10:52:16 +0200
> Alexander Leidinger <Alexander at Leidinger.net> wrote:
> 
> > Matthew Soffen <msoffen at iso-ne.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Too bad we couldn't just get something like there was for switching
> > > between the /usr/bin/perl and /usr/local/bin/perl
> > 
> > I use this work-around:
> > - create a directory (e.g. beneath your src directory) where you create the
> > neccesary symlinks
> > - add this directory in front of your path when you're working on something
> > which needs the autotools
> 
> That sounds like the buildlink system used by NetBSD's pkgsrc, except
> they do that for both executables and include files. I wonder if the
> FreeBSD ports could use something like that.
> 
> Cheers,


That is good but it would be a real pain in the butt since 99% of the
time I'm not doing something from ports.  

I am curious though, why did FreeBSD ports use things like automake19
instead of the way Linux does it with automake-1.9 ?

Matt