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Re: Configuring automake says autoconf 2.58 or higher needed. Haveau toconf 2.59 installed. What is/goes wrong?
>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@freenet.de> writes:
Ralf> On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 21:12 +0100, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
>> >>> "Meussen" == Meussen Erik IT415 <Erik.Meussen@siemens.com> writes:
[...]
Meussen> checking whether autoconf is recent enough . . . no
Meussen> configure: error: Autoconf 2.58 or better is required.
>>
>> Could you post config.log?
Ralf> This kind of error typically occurs if having changed an
Ralf> automake/autoconf source file
No, that would lead to an automake diagnostic. For the archive,
the above configure output is specific to the Automake package
and usually caused by
1. some PATH screwup (like trying autoconf --version in
another environment, or reseting PATH for non-interactive shells),
2. those distributions that install a "smart" autoconf wrapper
that fails to select the right version.
Erik answered that after reinstalling Autoconf from source
everything want fine, so this seems to indicate #2, although
we'll never know.
PS: I know this is not the first time, but I simply do not
understand why you respond to bug reports without Cc: the
reporter. We are all losers with this: you waste your time
writing an answer the reporter won't read, the other people
on the list won't answer because someone apparently did, and
the reporter do not get any help, and will not send any
complementary information necessary to fix the bug if there
is really one.
--
Alexandre Duret-Lutz