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Re: [Nmh-workers] Minimum autoconf version required to compile nmh
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rader |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] Minimum autoconf version required to compile nmh |
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Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:35:30 -0600 |
> >Yep, I've just run into this (also on CentOS). No problem, I thought,
> >I'll just bite the bullet and install the latest autoconf from source.
> >But no, it seems autoconf itself requires autoconf 2.60 or later to
> >build :-(
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> Did you try it directly from the revision control tree, or from the
> distributed tar file? I can imagine that being a problem with the
> former, but the latter includes an already-generated configure
> script so it won't need autoconf to build itself.
yep, that's what i do...
$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Scientific Linux SL release 5.4 (Boron)
$ tar -xvf tar-files/autoconf-2.68.tar.gz | egrep configure$
autoconf-2.68/configure
steve
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