Re: [Mingw-users] automake version problems

[Ralf W. <Ral...@gm...>]

Hi Johannes,

* Johannes Lampel wrote on Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 10:07:10PM CEST:
> 
> i'm using the current version of mingw and msys on windows xp and I cannot
> use automake properly since it says that autoconf 2.59 is required whereas
> I only got 2.56 with the package. installing the candidate version of
> mingw doesnt solve the problem, and google didnt give me any hints, except
> that a similar problem exist when using rpm differently than supposed on
> redhat.

Several possibilities:
a) You are merely using some other software package tarball.
Then you should not need autoconf at all.
b) You are developing or changing this package yourself.
Then you should be able to change AC_PREREQ,
or just create a tarball with "make dist" on another system where
recent autotools are installed, and use that tarball on mingw/msys.
c) Of course, you can have (a) but with bugs in the package, so that
normal "configure; make; make install" still needs the autotools.
Then you should complain to the package author.

Cheers,
Ralf