autotools versions

[Benedikt Meurer]

On Tue, 03, Jun 2003, Olivier Fourdan wrote:

Hey Olivier,

> Does anybody know how to have more than one automake/autoconf/libtool
> version ?
> 
> I have installed automake with program-suffix=-1.73, autoconf with
> program-suffix=-2.57 and libtool with program-suffix=-1.4a
> 
> Fine.
> 
> But now, how can I tell the autogen script to use the right version, ie
> to call automake-1.73 instead of just automake ?
> 
> I tried with aliases, no success, I tried to set AUTOMAKE=automake-1.73,
> no success (not surprising the autogen.sh script doesn't use that
> variable anyway).
> 
> Any idea ?

We could change the autogen script to honor environment variables. Should
be easy. I'll do it, if you want me to.

> Cheers,
> Olivier.

Benedikt

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