[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Which LinuxOS to use?-->1.Unbuntu, Fedora, Mandrake, FreeBSD

[Patrick Strasser]

Robert McGwier wrote:
> I need php5.   php5-dev wants  version 1.4 things because Ubuntu there 
> is some issue.     I could not get aclocal to work unless I forced 
> aclocal.m4 by hand to call automake-1.9 for example.  I got all of these 
> am python not found and other blow ups leading to complete failure.   As 
> soon as I modified aclocal.m4 forcing the call to later versions of the 
> auto tools, everything worked.

At least Debian has update-alternatives, which is quite usefuill with 
aclocal, I have 3 versions of automake (1.{4,7,9}.

I do not see any way to tell aclocal which atomake to use, but 
update-alternatives before building should let you avoid changing the 
source.

Patrick
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Patrick Strasser <patrick dot strasser at  tugraz dot at>
Student of Telematik, Techn. University Graz, Austria