On 2006/12/12 11:05, Karel Kulhavy wrote: > > set it to the version number you want; if you need to run autoconf you > > probably also know how to read the /usr/local/bin/autoconf script and work > > this out yourself... > > According to this approach, M$ Window$ are open source, because you can > read the machine code which contains an exact description how it works inside.
it's just a shell script... From a quick search of the archives it doesn't seem like anyone had a problem with it that they couldn't work out for themselves before... > Why isn't there a manual page for the autoconf switch script under man > autoconf > and there is a manpage for another openbsd specific software under man > pkg_add? The auto* wrappers are not OpenBSD-specific, they're part of pkg-config which is installed by the metaauto package. There's a clue to this in the file location; the base OS is not installed under /usr/local. Ports/packages only very rarely (20 of 3100+ ports) have manpages added if they're not supplied in the original distribution. If you think it really warrants one, you could write one and send it to the port maintainer and ask if he'd like to include it. But it's preferable to try and get them included upstream in the original distribution. > Please understand that these problems may seem insignificant, but there are > lots of them and added together they decrease the usability of OpenBSD. I > believe that adding a piece of text here and there when reported would cost > negligible work and would increase the usability of the system. If you think it's negligible work, do the work and send diffs along with reports (-: > Like when you report typos in books. And people do that here, too.
