Re: What is the blessed version of autoconf/automake?

[Michael Meissner <bin-mail at the-meissners dot org>]

On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 01:25:56PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 01:05:44PM -0400, Michael Meissner wrote:
> > What is the prefered version of automake, autoconf, gettext, and libtool for
> > the binary utilities these days?  In README-maintainer-mode it mentions that I
> > should use the special version of the tools in sourceware.cygnus.com (which I
> > probably should submit a patch because cygnus.com doesn't exist anymore).  With
> > this version of the tools, I get:
> 
> Where exactly did you get them, and are you sure you're using that
> copy?  They work for me.
> 
> > 
> > 	configure.in:8: AC_TRY_COMPILE was called before AC_ISC_POSIX
> > 	configure.in:8: AC_TRY_RUN was called before AC_ISC_POSIX
> > 	autoconf: Undefined macros:
> > 	***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_FD_MSG
> > 	***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_FD_CC

I got them from ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/binutils:

	autoconf-000227.tar.bz2
	automake-000227.tar.bz2
	gettext-000227.tar.bz2
	libtool-000227.tar.bz2

(substituting sources.redhat.com for the obsolete sourceware.cygnus.com), using
the current checked out sources from yesterday.  Since I am adding a new
machine, I needed to rebuild the appropriate files.  I built them from scratch,
installed them in a directory, and put that earlier on my $PATH before the
standard tools in /usr/bin.  The commands I issued were:

	--> aclocal
	--> autoconf
	--> automake

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Michael Meissner
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