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Re: Autoconf catch 22
- From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at mips dot com>
- To: John Darrington <john at darrington dot wattle dot id dot au>
- Cc: <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 20:18:38 +0000
- Subject: Re: Autoconf catch 22
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- References: <20180112200238.GA5522@jocasta.intra>
On Fri, 12 Jan 2018, John Darrington wrote:
> Fine. I use 2.64 as instructed:
>
> $ autoreconf2.64
>
> and get:
>
> configure.ac:35: error: Autoconf version 2.65 or higher is required
>
> This is a contradiction !!!!!
Please make sure you use the exact versions of autotools originally used
(unless you are prepared to hack things yourself). This is autoconf 2.64
and automake 1.11.6, as determined by numbers reported at the beginning of
the respective generated files. E.g.:
$ head bfd/Makefile.in bfd/configure
will tell you that. You may have to set the AUTOCONF, AUTOHEADER and
AUTOM4TE environment variables to point to the right version of the
corresponding scripts to make things work. The requirement for autoconf
>= 2.65 comes from a newer version of automake.
HTH,
Maciej