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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03.03.2003 16:57 Subject: Re: please bring back program suffix for autoconf bin files Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- "Implementation details are beyond the scope of the Java virtual machine specification. One should not assume that every virtual machine implementation contains a giant squid." --"Mr. Bunny's Big Cup o' Java"
