setting autoconf version?

[Louis Munro]

On February 7, 2004 09:55 am, JJB wrote:
> You did not answer my question.
> Your are more than likely out of sync with your ports catalog.
> Cvsup the ports-base and try again to install your port.
>
I just did and it makes no difference whatsoever. As I said I have all 
autoconf versions listed in the port tree installed concurrently and I 
have done a 
# portupgrade -aRr 

The issue seems to me that even though I have more than one autoconf 
version installed my system will default to one specific version that is not
the most recent (autoconf257). So how do I tell it which one to use?
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Louis Munro [mailto:louismunro at altern.org]
> Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 8:38 AM
> To: Barbish3 at adelphia.net
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: setting autoconf version?
>
> On February 7, 2004 01:41 am, JJB wrote:
> > I believe auto.conf  comes with the ports-base category.
> > Did you cvsup download it?
>
> The way I understand it, the system comes with a particular version
> of
> autoconf but there are one or two other versions that exist in the
> port tree
> (as of 2/7/2004).
> They can all be installed together because some ports will require
> one version
> or another. My problem is that when I try to build a port the system
> only
> considers the default version and doesn't take into account those
> other
> versions that I've installed.
> So I'm thinking that there must be a way to specify which version of
> autoconf
> or any other such port (ie automake) to use when building...