Re: GNU hello

[Reuben Thomas]

On 13 August 2017 at 06:51, Niklas Rosencrantz <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On OpenBSD I had to manually set 2 environment variables: Automake and
> autonconf versions. Maybe a script could set those for the build.

Do the default versions not work? I see that hello requires autoconf
2.62 and automake 1.11.1, but these are both some years old.

> Could you specify which error my 2.7 build had?

Search the log for "error" (and ignore the mentions of "strerror"
etc.!). There is a make error.

> Is there a big difference between 2.10 and 2.7?

Yes, there are considerable changes, to the code and even more to the
build system.