Re: Problems upgrading

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 16:57 -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> 
> > Hello Skip,
> >
> > * Skip Kimpel - Magicgate Software, Inc. wrote on Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 
> > 08:30:53PM CET:
> >>
> >> I have version 2.57 installed on my system and I would like to upgrade
> >> to 2.61.. What do I need to do this?
> >
> > Hmm.  You could download
> > <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.61.tar.bz2>
> 
> He could try.  But most of the releases of autoconf since 2.52 have had
> interdependencies with specific versions of automake.   Perhaps he doesn't
> need that much entertainment...
Simply install autoconf and automake to a prefix != /usr or /usr/local
and the issue is gone.

Ralf