First, have a look which autoconf you're really running, with
$ which autoconf
or
$ type -a autoconf
I'll bet you find an old autoconf, probably in /usr/bin.
If that is the case, you have an old autoconf installation.
You can either modify your PATH so the new one is found before the old one
(but that might break other stuff), uninstall the old autoconf or install
the new one over the old one.
Have fun!
rlc
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Devdutta Bhosale wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> We are linux newbies and tried to install automake on RH 7.2
>
> we already installed Autoconf and could see the binaries
> in
> /usr/local/bin
>
> but while compiling we saw following error:
>
> checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking for gawk... gawk
> checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
> checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
> configure: error: Autoconf 2.52 or better is required
> [root@localhost automake-1.6]# $path
> [root@localhost automake-1.6]# $PATH
> bash:
> /usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/local/bin:/u
> sr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin:/root/bin:/home/dev/mpeg4ip/autoconf-2.54:
> No such file or directory
> [root@localhost automake-1.6]:
>
>
>
> Could you plz tell me what is the problem and what's the fix.
>
> Thank you,
> Devdutta
>
>
