automake, autoconf compiling

[Nikolas Britton]

Keith Bottner wrote:

>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.
>  
>
You do know about the ports (and packages) system, correct? 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html