automake, autoconf compiling

[Keith Bottner]

First let me say that I am definitely a newbie to FreeBSD but not to Linux
or Windows.
 
I am trying to get a development system setup and am having trouble
identifying how FreeBSD handles automake, autoconf and the like.
Specifically I am trying to get the Apache log4cxx source to compile and of
course I am running into problems with automake, aclocal, autoheader,
autoconf and libtoolize not being in the path. I did chase them down in the
/usr/local/libexec/automake18 and similar directories but placing them in
the path still generates errors (i.e. there continues to be things that are
missing at various stages).
 
I guess my general question is: What is the standard way for setting up
FreeBSD to use these (GNU tools) with the least trouble across disparate
projects?
 
I have never had this problem on Linux as they have always been properly
setup on install and I want to get FreeBSD going and do it the way that is
accepted as the standard so that later generalizing my project with autoconf
will be standardized as well.
 
I appreciate any feedback and realize this is a rather broad question, but
hey I said I was new to FreeBSD.
 
Keith

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