Re: spurious configure failure for automake-1.7

[Ralf Corsepius]

Am Fre, 2002-12-20 um 10.32 schrieb Markus Werle:
> Hi folks!
> 
> I wanted to compile automake-1.7 on a linux-i686 box (kernel 2.4.19)
> What goes wrong here?
>
> # whereis autoconf
> autoconf: /opt/autoconf-2.57/bin/autoconf
> # ./configure --prefix=/opt/automake-1.7 && make && make install
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking for gawk... gawk
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
> checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
> checking for tex... no
> configure: error: Autoconf 2.54 or better is required
You must have autoconf >= 2.54 in $PATH.
i.e. `which autoconf` is supposed to point to the autoconf you want to
use with automake.

Furthermore, I'd recommend to install autoconf + automake to the same
installation prefix. 


Ralf