Re: The installed version of autoconf does not work

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello,

* Prashant wrote on Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 03:15:43PM CEST:
> 
>  I am facing problem while installing automake with 1.9 in Linux 2.1As
>  machine.  Initially i have installed autoconf with 2.59 version.I
>  dont what is problem.Please help me in this regard
> 
> configure:1858: checking whether autoconf works
> configure:1865: cd conftest && eval autoconf -o /dev/null conftest.ac
> Usage: autoconf [-h] [--help] [-m dir] [--macrodir=dir]
>        [-l dir] [--localdir=dir] [--version] [template-file]

This test apparently tries to find out whether autoconf works;
it seems to find a too old installed Autoconf version.  This
can have one of several reasons:
- The autoconf you just installed is not found first in your $PATH, but
  an older one is.
- Your distribution has a wrapper script installed to transparently call
  either version 2.13 and 2.59, and the wrapper (still!) has a bug.

Please check this.  Please also read this email thread and look whether
the problem is the same as yours:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/automake/2004-09/msg00002.html

Cheers,
Ralf