RE: please bring back program suffix for autoconf bin files

[Dan Kegel]

That's a nice feature of Debian, but unfortunately,
it does not help in the case of somebody trying to
write a shell script that must invoke autoconf-2.13
no matter what distro (Debian, Cygwin, or Red Hat)
it runs on.  For such a shell script, having a standard
way to invoke exactly autoconf-2.13 is a must.
- Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Pfaff
To: Dan Kegel
Cc: address@hidden
Sent: 03.03.2003 16:57
Subject: Re: please bring back program suffix for autoconf bin files

Dan Kegel <address@hidden> writes:

> Sure, I could, and maybe I will.  But all I need is access to
> a recent autoconf side by side with the old autoconf-2.13.
> All the distros make autoconf available as /usr/bin/autoconf,
> but the name they use for autoconf-2.13 varies:
> 
> Red Hat 8.x: /usr/bin/autoconf-2.13
> Debian:      /usr/bin/autoconf2.13

Debian has code to automagically detect the needed version of
Autoconf.  Read /usr/share/doc/autoconf2.13/README.Debian.gz for
details.  You should have little or no need to invoke
version-specific binaries for Autoconf under Debian.  It often
won't do what you want anyway, because Makefiles and so on will
still invoke Autoconf under the non-version-specific names.
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