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by ianai 3184 days ago
In my experience, the design of FreeBSD makes compiling projects much more easy. The standardized system really helps at many tasks.
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Koshkin 3184 days ago
But few projects are designed to only support FreeBSD. In the UNIX world, Autoconf still reigns supreme.
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rleigh 3184 days ago
Autoconf is completely orthogonal to the base/ports split and FreeBSD vs Linux or any other UNIX.

All the ports are simply automatically configured with "--prefix=/usr/local".

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