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

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:29:22 -0500, RW <fbsd06 at mlists.homeunix.com> wrote:

> 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?

Did you misread it? :-) The *-wrapper is correct and normal.

# pkg_info -IX wrapper
autoconf-wrapper-20070404 Wrapper script for GNU autoconf
automake-wrapper-20070404 Wrapper script for GNU automake

Cheers,
Mezz


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