where is autoconf

[Philip M. Golllucci]

Hi,

You can symlink these as needed.  I do it all the time.

You will run into problems if you try to simlink aclocal/automake
the /usr/local/share/aclocal19 and the libtool15.m4 runs into issues...

autoconf by itself however will work no problem.

To the ports maintainer, T do very much appreciate your work on the auto 
tools. :)



Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
>>> Well, I was looking for 'autoconf' in these files but didn't find it.
>>> And indeed, even though I have 'autoconf-2.59_2' installed, all I have
>>> is 'autoconf259', but not 'autoconf'.
>>
>>
>>
>> This is necessary because the autoconf developers don't understand why
>> backwards compatibility is important for their tools (new versions
>> like 2.59 cannot be used to build old applications that were written
>> for e.g. 2.13, nor can multiple versions of autoconf be easily
>> installed concurrently).
> 
> 
> I'm aware of these (very unfortunate) incompatibilities, though I had
> expected the problem to be dealt with differently (for example by
> setting a symbolic link to the currently active version).
> 
>> You can use the gnu-autoconf and related ports, which installs into
>> /usr/local/gnu-autotools so they do not poison the build environment
>> of other ports.  YOu might have to play games with PATH or other
>> variables to get your application to find them.
> 
> 
> Ok, thanks for the explanation.
> 
> Regards,
>         Stefan
> 
> 
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