Re: Updating from vsn 2.57

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Stroud,

* Stroud Custer wrote on Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 07:30:07PM CEST:
> I have version 2.57 of autoconf, which came with my SuSE distro.  I have 
> encountered some packages which require version 2.58 or above.  When I try to 
> run the current 2.59 build, I get a message that version 2.58 or above is 
> required.

While _building_ autoconf from a release tarball, no autoconf itself is
required.  Only when you do so from a CVS version (which does not
contain the built files like `configure') or when you changed files
yourself should this be necessary.

Regards,
Ralf