Re: m4sugar problem with update to autoconf 2.57

[David Relson]

At 10:15 PM 4/10/03, Eric Siegerman wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 02:14:51PM -0400, David Relson wrote:
> > I downloaded the .tgz, unpacked it, and ran "./configure --prefix=/usr &&
> > make && make check && make install".  It took a while, but all seemed to
> > run correctly.
>
> A long shot, but did you happen to actually do something like:
>         ./configure
>         make
>         # Oh darn, forgot the --prefix
>         ./configure --prefix=/usr
>         make
>         [test and install]
>
> If so, "make distclean" and then reinstall autoconf.
>
> Running "configure" fails to force the rebuilding of one specific
> file (lib/autom4te.cfg), and I believe that could cause the
> problem you've described.
>
> This affects only the building of Autoconf itself, *not* your
> autoconfiscated packages.

Eric,

"make distclean" was the needed bit of magic.  I had discovered that 
autom4te.cfg was pointing to /usr/local/share/autoconf, which seemed 
wrong.  I guess I should have mentioned that fact.

With that change, I now have an autoconf-2.57 installation in which 
"autoreconf -fis" runs correctly and without complaint.

Thank you very much.

David