Re: What version of autoconf is required for automake-1.4f?

[Gary V . Vaughan]

On Saturday 23 June 2001 12:38 am, Clark Rawlins wrote:
> Tom,
>
> Thank you for your help. I am sorry if these questions are FAQs if
> so please direct me to the appropriate documentation.

  http://sources.redhat.com/autobook

> After installing automake-2.14f in /usr/local I am getting an error
> messages when running aclocal:
>
> aclocal: configure.in: 10: macro `AM_PROG_LIBTOOL' not found in library
>
> All I did when I installed automake-2.14f was the usual
>
> ./configure
> make
> su
> make install
>
> Are there some configuration settings I should have set for configure?
> I didn't see any in the README INSTALL or in ./configure --help

All of the packages intalled by your distro that support aclocal (gettext, 
gtk, libtool etc) will have put their macros in /usr/share/aclocal, but you 
have installed automake to /usr/local so it is looking in 
/usr/local/share/aclocal.

If you don't mind upsetting your package manager, the following will work (as 
root):

        $ cp -f /usr/local/share/aclocal/* /usr/share/aclocal
        $ rmdir /usr/local/share/aclocal
        $ ln -s /usr/share/aclocal /usr/local/share/aclocal


More properly, use your package manager to uninstall the distributed automake 
package, and reinstall your version, but this time configured with 
--prefix=/usr (preferably after making a package from it).

Cheers,
        Gary.

> On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 11:12:20AM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> > Clark> Is autoconf (v 2.13) installed in /usr compatible with
> > Clark> automake 2.14f installed in /usr/local?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > Tom
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