How to build /trunk?

Jannis Pohlmann info at sten-net.de
Wed Apr 20 20:25:58 CEST 2005


Hi Danny.

Danny Milosavljevic schrieb:

>Hi,
>
>Am Montag, den 18.04.2005, 22:14 +0200 schrieb Olivier Fourdan:
>  
>
>>On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 12:09 -0700, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>>I'm using autoconf 2.59r-2 (Debian/Ubuntu).
>>>>
>>>>Does anyone have an idea how to get this working?
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>- From watching the commit list, I believe Olivier had the same problem
>>>and concluded that Ubuntu has a broken set of autotools.  Not sure if he
>>>found a solution, though.
>>>      
>>>
>>I had several versions of autoconf installed. The "default was pointing
>>to the oldest version so I  removed all but the latest and that worked.
>>    
>>
>
>I see ...
>
>As a sidenote, arent versions of auto* also available as f.e.
>"/usr/bin/autoconf-2.59", "/usr/bin/automake-1.9", ... ?
>
>Or is that a gentooish thing that isnt standard (to add the version
>number to the auto* binaries) ?
>  
>
Yes, they are accessable by their version number but the "autogen.sh" of 
Xfce doesn't check
for the versions available. It makes use of the pure names "autoconf" 
and  "automake" (without
any version).

Kind regards,
Jannis



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