Re: ./prepare fails

[Jeff H. <unu...@gm...>]

On Monday 14 March 2005 09:10 am, Ethan Merritt wrote:
> On Saturday 12 March 2005 07:39 pm, Jeff Hagen wrote:
> > 	I am trying to install the gnuplot beta so that I can play around with
> > histograms.... I get to the point of running prepare then it fails. It
> > can not find config.guess and config.sub....
>
> Yes.
> I have that same problem.
> It seems to be a recent autoconf bug.
>
> The work-around is to create empty instances of these files before hand,
> and they will be replaced with correct ones.
>
> [1] touch config.guess config.sub
> [2] ./prepare
> [3] ./configure

That fixed it, thanks!

It also seems that the version of automake installed by default on Mandrake 
10.1 is pretty old:

autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.59
automake (GNU automake) 1.4-p6

It seems that Mandrake hasn't updated it since 2002. Time to send them a bug 
report.

Thanks,
-Jeff Hagen
jh...@uc...