Re: [Protux-devel] automake 1.6.3

[tapio laxström]

booker wrote:
> I had to update automake to version 1.6.3 to be able to compile KINO.
>
> But after that I can't finish the make process of protux no longer:
>
> address@hidden mustuxlib]$ make -f admin/Makefile.common
> *** Creating acinclude.m4
> !!! If you get recursion errors from autoconf, it is advisable to set the
>     environment variable M4 to something including "--nesting-limit=500"
> *** Creating aclocal.m4
> *** Creating configure
> FATAL ERROR: Autoconf version 2.52 or higher is required for this script
> make: *** [cvs] Error 2
> address@hidden mustuxlib]$
>
>
>
> But take note of the 'FATAL ERROR' message .... 
> I'm still using 'Autoconf version 2.13' but yesterday there were no problems 
> reported during compilation using STILL THE SAME autoconf version 2.13
>
> Any idea?

while you updated automake, aclocal was updated too.
aclocal generates some macros which are then used by autoconf and 
automake and if your aclocal is too new autoconf gets confused...

possible solutions:
1. update autoconf too
2. or istall both both versions of automake (1.4 and 1.6)

I have myself several versions installed from autoconf and automake. 
Those are all installed from souces. After one installation I have 
changed binary names:
 /usr/local/bin/automake --> /usr/local/bin/automake-1.4

and then installed another and chaged that binary name too.
Then I create symbolic link to which I want to use:
 ln -sf /usr/local/bin/automake-1.4 /usr/local/bin/automake

Keep few things in mind:
autoconf 2.53 is not fully backword compatible with 2.13 (atleast not 
yet). And if you install automake from sources, there might be several 
versions of *.m4 files in your system (aclocal uses those).

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tapio laxström
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