autoconf/automake guru wanted [gnuplot-4.0 with patches]

RW fbsd06 at mlists.homeunix.com
Tue Sep 18 09:29:26 PDT 2007


On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:51:18 -0700
Ted Thomas <tthomas at cosmozilla.net> wrote:

> I'm sorry if this sounds like a complaint. I just spent 2 days 
> attempting to salvage a sane 6.2 development box which does not use 
> X-Windows, because I stumbled into the Xorg quagmire. Recognizing
> that the ports system is itself a remarkable achievement, I would
> distill my concern down to one thing: naming conventions.
> 
> Example 1: autoconf/automake
> 
>     autoconf-2.59_3                     =   up-to-date with port
>     autoconf-2.61_2                     =   up-to-date with port
These two are no problem, they are different ports. 

>     autoconf-wrapper-20070404           =   up-to-date with port
> ..
>     automake-wrapper-20070404           =   up-to-date with port

This shouldn't happen, do you have multiple entries in /var/db/pkg?


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