Re: ./prepare asks for ./config.guess and config.sub

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Gaël Varoquaux wrote:
>   I am being very stupid but the prepare script from the CVS asks from
> two file it cannot find :
> 
> automake: configure.in: required file `../config.guess' not found
> automake: configure.in: required file `../config.sub' not found

That's almost guaranteed to be a case of your automake or autoconf 
version being too old to be usable with gnuplot.

>    I also find it strange that, if you don't give a --prefix=foobar, you
> need root permission to make (and not make install). "make" should never
> need root permission.

Until you've updated to current auto-tools, it's moot to speculate about 
this.  If it still happens after that step, please provide more 
information: which step did fail, and how?