Re: autoconf 2.61 incompatibility?

[Lars Hecking]

> So you're building from a "dist" tarball, and not a cvs/git/svn
> checkout?  If that's the case then the version of autotools that you
> have installed (as well as any version requirements of the package)
> should not matter at all, as nothing should need to be regenerated.  The
> dist tarball is supposed to be standalone and not require any auto* on
> the enduser system.
 
 Yes, this is my understanding.

 NFS is not a factor (/tmp). But I am just told that the author was using
 cpack to build the distribution, and I am unfamiliar with that. So it
 looks like he needs to redo it with make dist.

 Thanks :)