On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 09:46:19PM +0200 I heard the voice of
Peter Eisentraut, and lo! it spake thus:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Does the FreeBSD one actually produce different output?
>
> If it did not, why would they bother making a separate package
> called "gnu-autoconf" with the note "This port is specifically
> designed for developers that want to create cross-platform software
> distributions on FreeBSD."?
Because the non-"gnu-" variants patch to stuff version numbers in all
the filenames and invocations down the chain, so you can have
different versions installed at once. Different packages might be
written to different versions, and they tend to be
non-cross-compatible.
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