Re: automake 1.16

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 26 Dec 2018, David wrote:

> here I sit, after hours of finding and adding lib's. thinking I am ready to 
> compile automake 1.16
> cd ~/tocompileautomake
>
> error this file was made for automake 1.16 you have 1.14who is the super genius 
> who decided this? how is the software supposed to be compiled if ya need the 
> software to compile itself?why?

Perhaps you failed to follow the provided instructions or you are the 
first person in the entire world who has encountered this problem.

How did you acquire Automake 1.16?  Was it from a release tarball or 
from a git clone.

Bob
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