Re: Double versions installed

2010-09-20 Thread Jos Chrispijn
On 19-9-2010 23:34, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: You've never worked with GNU autotools, have you? :-) Nope, that is correct :-) Therefore, if a piece of third-party software requires autoconf or automake to build its configure scripts or Makefiles, it's up to the port maintainer of said

Double versions installed

2010-09-19 Thread Jos Chrispijn
I have now installed two versions of autoconf: autoconf-2.13.000227_6 Automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms autoconf-2.67Automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms Can someone tell me how I can get rid of the first one? Thank

Double versions installed

2010-09-19 Thread Robert Huff
Jos Chrispijn writes: I have now installed two versions of autoconf: autoconf-2.13.000227_6 Automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms autoconf-2.67Automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms Start by doing this

Re: Double versions installed

2010-09-19 Thread RW
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 18:07:02 +0200 Jos Chrispijn po...@webrz.net wrote: I have now installed two versions of autoconf: autoconf-2.13.000227_6 Automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms autoconf-2.67Automatically configure source code on many

Re: Double versions installed

2010-09-19 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 06:07:02PM +0200, Jos Chrispijn wrote: I have now installed two versions of autoconf: That is perfectly normal. Some programs require one specific version of autoconf, while others require another version, so one easily ends up with more than one version installed.

Re: Double versions installed

2010-09-19 Thread Jos Chrispijn
On 19-9-2010 19:01, Erik Trulsson wrote: That is perfectly normal. Some programs require one specific version of autoconf, while others require another version, so one easily ends up with more than one version installed. They can live side-by-side so having more than one version installed is

Re: Double versions installed

2010-09-19 Thread Jos Chrispijn
On 19-9-2010 18:54, Robert Huff wrote: Start by doing this for each version: pkg_info -Rpackage-version If the result for 2.13 is empty, you can delete it. Note that due to new programs needing it, it may reappear. Thanks. So a programmer of this program can't force

Re: Double versions installed

2010-09-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 10:33:23PM +0200, Jos Chrispijn wrote: On 19-9-2010 19:01, Erik Trulsson wrote: That is perfectly normal. Some programs require one specific version of autoconf, while others require another version, so one easily ends up with more than one version installed. They can