On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 01:31:43PM -0700, W. Reilly Cooley, Esq. wrote:
> I'm running into various dependecies which are causing me much grief.
> I updated several GNU packages in my source tree to the versions on alpha,
> because I couldn't get them to build on the base system I'm working on
> (glibc 2.1, Linux 2.2, etc). In some cases, I've wanted or needed to
> re-run automake or autoconf to pick up new features (like DESTDIR support)
> or even some of the more basic things, like the extra path options that
> were added to less-than-ancient autoconf. Unfortunately, it seems that
> in order to get some of these to work, it has been recommended that I
> update to the alpha.gnu.org autoconf and/or the current CVS of automake.
> Of course, I'm afraid that if I do this, the whole house of cards will
> come tumbling down.
that's likely. the alpha isn't really compatible with older versions of
autoconf.
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