Re: [naviserver-devel] patch for autogen.sh to run under FreeBSD

[Stephen D. <sd...@gm...>]

On 7/17/06, Mike <nee...@gm...> wrote:
> On 7/17/06, Stephen Deasey <sd...@gm...> wrote:
> > What's the default versions of autoconf and automake on FreeBSD (FreeBSD x.x?)
> >
> > What did the default autoconf not like in our configure script?
>
> Stephen,
>   I believe there is no such thing as "default" autoconf in FreeBSD.
> It's a third-party package, and multiple versions of it are available
> because various other things rely on a particular version, so the
> version is tacked on at the end...  A similar thing is done with tcl -
> there is no "tclsh" on FreeBSD, only tclsh8.4 or tclsh8.5, for
> example..  (someone please correct me if I am wrong... - perhaps there
> is a port of some "compatibility" shim that finds latest version and
> tries it that I am unaware of).
>

My Fedora box has automake-1.4  automake-1.5  automake-1.6
automake-1.7  automake-1.9, but it also has plain 'automake', which is
the 1.9 version.

I guess we need something like:

$ AUTOMAKE="automake-1.9" ./autogen.sh

then?