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From: Szakacsits S. <sz...@si...> - 2003-08-18 13:06:00
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On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > > > > % ./autogen.sh > > processing . > > Running aclocal ... > > Running autoheader... > > /usr/bin/m4: configure.in: No such file or directory > > Running automake --gnu ... > > configure.ac: 5: required file `./[config.h].in' not found > > Running autoconf ... > > autoconf: configure.in: No such file or directory > > **Error**: autoconf failed. > > Your tools are out of date. You need at least autoconf 2.57 and automake > 1.6.3 (also libtool is 1.4.3 and m4 is 1.4.1 if needed). I know but I have Mandrake 9.1 that usually ships the latest things. However I just noticed although the default autotools somewhat old, they also ship the latest autotools as an alternative. I'll try them out later. > Not sure when the tools changed but certainly as soon as I started using > RedHat Linux 9.0 My bad luck. I just recently switched away from RH, after over 7 years, used it since Red Hat 2.1. > the build broke due to the newer tools so I upgraded the sources to > work with the newer tools... And it couldn't be fixed? I see zero benefit using the newer tools, only the pains and potential FAQ's, again. > Note that if you just get one of the snapshots from the webpage you only > need to run ./configure and this will work fine with any version of the It's not possible to add new tools using only ./configure ... Szaka |
