Re: Fwd: Re: bug version number of autoconf

[Eric Blake]

On 07/17/2012 11:07 AM, address@hidden wrote:
>>> and make install to install Autoconf2.62 and I have success in this
>>
>> Why 2.62 and not 2.69?
>> I have tried many of them 2.69 and 2.68 and 2.62 and this is the same
> probleme,

That should be your hint that the problem is not in autoconf, but in
your setup.

>>>
>>> And when I type autoconf -V on my terminal, I see
>>>
>>> autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.59

But if you type '/usr/local/bin/autoconf -V', you should get the
just-installed version.  That is, your PATH is requesting that
'autoconf' forwards to '/usr/bin/autoconf', and you did not replace that
file when installing your self-built version.

>>
>> Based on what you said above, you successfully installed into
>> /usr/local/bin, but your shell is probably still set to either have
>> /usr/bin first in $PATH,
> My bash shell have a $PATH with
> /usr/bin before  /usr/local/bin 

Yep, that is indeed your problem.  Your setup is atypical (most distros
stick /usr/local/bin/ before /usr/bin/ in their default setup of $PATH,
so you must have customized things differently).  You can also force
your self-built versions to install into /usr/bin instead of
/usr/local/bin by passing appropriate options to ./configure, although I
would not recommend doing that (as it tends to make getting support from
your distro much more difficult).

> or else your shell has hashed the previous
>> location of automake
> 
> I never had automake before because no automake software was in this
> computer
> and at this time no automake yet.

Apologies for my typo, I meant autoconf.  But the point remains: it is
your atypical choice of PATH that is letting a path lookup for autoconf
find your old distro version instead of your just-built version, and if
you want to find your just-built version without an absolute file name,
then you need to fix your PATH.

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Eric Blake   address@hidden    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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