Re: Duplicated macro's argh

[Simon Waters]

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Simon Waters wrote:
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> My Debian box has stopped playing ball with packaging gnu chess.
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> Attempts to use aclocal now fail with the above error.
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> I note that Deian unstable has two autoconf packages installed autoconf
> autoconf2.13, however if I force the old 2.13 version (rename
> configure.a configure.in ad comment out any AC
> _PREREQ bad things happen so I assume 2.13 is ancient history as far as
> I'm concerned.

Okay - Debian packages exist for specific versions of automake. The
package called automake is incompatible with the package called autoconf
in unstable (as of a few days back - 2.57).

Upgrading to automake1.7 from automake solved my problem, and several
other ones at the same time, whilst telling me how to rewrite my
makefiles the "right way".

I suspect this is a dependency bug in the Debian packaging system, which
ony people who don't know enough about autotools (like me) will
experience, as everyone who knows will have upgraded automake already.

 Simon
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