multiple autoconf versions

[James]

On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 19:48 +0000, Pollywog wrote:

> I am running FreeBSD 6.2 and I discovered that I have four versions of 
> autoconf installed.
> 
> autoconf-2.13.000227_6 Automatically configure source code on many Un*x 
> platforms
> autoconf-2.53_4     Automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms
> autoconf-2.59_3     Automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms
> autoconf-2.61_2     Automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms
> 
> 
> Should I remove any of them?  I know that in Linux, having more than one 
> version of autoconf can cause problems, but I am not certain of what to do 
> here.
> 
> thanks
> 
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Reading /usr/ports/UPDATING says that yes, you *can*, but whether you
*should* is another issue.

I had a machine, though, that was crapping out on portupgrades, for
which removing old versions of autoconf made things simpler to resolve.