Re: Building problems

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Rune Zedeler <address@hidden> writes:

> After the end of holydays I tried building 1.6.1 at the university. -
> Running a heavily modified RH7.1 - afair.
> I get
>
> address@hidden:~/lilypond/lilypond]$ ./autogen.sh
> --prefix="$HOME/usr/$HOSTTYPE"
> ERROR: Please install autoconf 2.13
> address@hidden:~/lilypond/lilypond]$ autoconf --version
> autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.53
> ...
>
> Why does lilypond require i lower version number of autoconf?

I upgraded the autoconf sources to 2.53, but there's a serious bug in
2.53 resulting in a disfunctional ./configure (it all cost me several
hours) that I reported but got no response on.

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Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
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