autotools on freebsd

[sirola at fisica.unige.it]

Hello Matthias,

>>>>> "Matthias" == Matthias Andree <matthias.andree at uni-dortmund.de> writes:

    Matthias> I'll tell you a trick (I fell into the same pit before):
    Matthias> the corresponding ports are named gnu-autoconf (and
    Matthias> similar) and you need to add
    Matthias> /usr/local/gnu-autotools/bin (or something similar, I
    Matthias> don't recall the exact spelling off-hand, use pkginfo -L
    Matthias> to figure) to your PATH variable.

    Matthias> Then you can use the regular autoreconf and friends
    Matthias> without suffix.  Those with the 259 or 19 suffix are for
    Matthias> the ports system, those with gnu- in the port name are
    Matthias> for us programmers.

argh! I went out crazy! Thanks a lot for the trick :-)

    Matthias> It would be nice if this could be documented more
    Matthias> clearly, or perhaps the auto* packages be renamed to
    Matthias> ports-auto* and gnu-auto* to auto* to remove this
    Matthias> confusion. I concede this is a larger change and cannot
    Matthias> happen before 6.0.

Maybe a few lines on the porters' handbook in order to explain that
for non-port projects one should use /usr/local/gnu-autotools stuff
would help a lot.
Thanks again, 
e.

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Enrico Sirola <enrico.sirola at gmail.com>