Re: help, automake generated a buggy Makefile?

[Steven Woody]

On 10/16/07, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello Steven,
>
> * Steven Woody wrote on Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 05:45:57PM CEST:
> > On 10/15/07, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > > This looks like this file has been generated with Automake 1.9 rather
> > > than 1.10.  Please check the comment at the top of the file, and if
> > > that's the case, please run
> > >   aclocal-1.10 && automake-1.10 && autoconf
> >
> > after removed extra spaces in configure.ac and re-executed automake
> > 1.10 in an explicitly way as you mentioned above,  every thing run
> > well and the gcc error have disapeared! thanks for you help!
>
> Good.
>
> > but i still dont understand, why when i typed `automake', it actually
> > run 1.9.6 rather than the most recent version of 1.10.  should i
> > delete all old version of autoexec/aclocal in my system?
>
> Well, each Automake version installs the program under both names
> `automake' and `automake-MAJOR.MINOR'.  If you have installed 1.9.x
> after you installed 1.10, or if you have installed them in different
> prefixes, and the 1.9.x one happens to be found earlier in $PATH, then
> that one will be used when you type `automake'.  Similar for aclocal.
>
> That said, you need not delete old Automake installations.  Rather,
> either adjust $PATH, or reinstall 1.10.
>
> Cheers,
> Ralf
>

thanks a lot!

-- 
woody

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