Re: trouble building under osx panther

[Dan Starr]

I am far beyond that particular error.  I got autoconf built 
successfully.  The problem had to do with the peculiar placement that 
Apple uses for new binaries.  In the case of autoconf and automake, 
Apple has put them, albeit old versions, in /usr.  They are considered 
"basic" I suppose, so they do not go in /usr/local, which is where they 
went when I built autoconf-2.59.

The solution is to enter: ./configure --prefix=/usr

That way, the old version is replaced, and automake can then find what 
it wants there.  You then must do the same for automake-1.8.4.

Devious Dan

On 2004 May 24, at 2:17 AM, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:

> > > > "Dan" == Dan Starr <address@hidden> writes:
>
>  Dan> Had to first fudge configure by globally changing every instance 
> of
>  Dan> 2.58 to 2.57.
>
> 2.58 is required for a good reason.  Do not use 2.57.
>
>  Dan> Would not recognize that I had already installed
>  Dan> autoconf-2.59.
>
> Try `autoconf --version', if that does not answer 2.59, then
> you have to fix your setup (PATH probably).
> --
> Alexandre Duret-Lutz