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Re: What is the blessed version of autoconf/automake?


On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 02:41:56PM -0400, Michael Meissner wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 01:25:56PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 01:05:44PM -0400, Michael Meissner wrote:
> > > What is the prefered version of automake, autoconf, gettext, and libtool for
> > > the binary utilities these days?  In README-maintainer-mode it mentions that I
> > > should use the special version of the tools in sourceware.cygnus.com (which I
> > > probably should submit a patch because cygnus.com doesn't exist anymore).  With
> > > this version of the tools, I get:
> > 
> > Where exactly did you get them, and are you sure you're using that
> > copy?  They work for me.
> > 
> > > 
> > > 	configure.in:8: AC_TRY_COMPILE was called before AC_ISC_POSIX
> > > 	configure.in:8: AC_TRY_RUN was called before AC_ISC_POSIX
> > > 	autoconf: Undefined macros:
> > > 	***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_FD_MSG
> > > 	***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_FD_CC
> 
> I got them from ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/binutils:
> 
> 	autoconf-000227.tar.bz2
> 	automake-000227.tar.bz2
> 	gettext-000227.tar.bz2
> 	libtool-000227.tar.bz2
> 
> (substituting sources.redhat.com for the obsolete sourceware.cygnus.com), using
> the current checked out sources from yesterday.  Since I am adding a new
> machine, I needed to rebuild the appropriate files.  I built them from scratch,
> installed them in a directory, and put that earlier on my $PATH before the
> standard tools in /usr/bin.  The commands I issued were:
> 
> 	--> aclocal
> 	--> autoconf
> 	--> automake

Well, in that case I'm stumped.  It works for me.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer


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