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Re: autom4te problem


From: Akim Demaille
Subject: Re: autom4te problem
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:27:47 +0100
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| On recent builds, I've had failures like this on two systems:
|       /usr/local/bin/autom4te: unrecognized option `--cache=autom4te.cache'
|       Try `/usr/local/bin/autom4te --help' for more information.
|       configure:1736: $? = 1
|       configure:1736: error: Autoconf 2.54 or better is required.
|         Is it installed?  Is it in your PATH?  (try running `autoconf 
--version')
|         Is it working?  See also config.log for error messages before this 
one.
| 
| The version is displayed as:
| 
|       /usr/local/bin/autom4te --version
|       autom4te (GNU Autoconf) 2.54
|       Written by Akim Demaille.
| 
| Most of our other systems have autoconf-2.56 or 2.57, and a grep of
| /usr/local/bin/autom4te on them shows the --cache option, but it
| appears to be absent from the 2.54 version.
| 
| Thus, it appears that the configure complaint is incorrect: it may
| require autoconf 2.56 or later.
| 
| I'm now going to retry builds on those two systems to see if newer
| autoconf versions can be installed.

Hi Nelson,

That's very weird: it looks like an autoconf 2.57 is using an autom4te
2.54.  Is that possible?  The message is misleading, but from 2.54's
point of view, it was legitimate :)




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