On Monday 23 May 2011, Graham Reitz wrote: > Is their a configure switch to indicate that an alternative autoconf > should be used, rather than defaulting to the autoconf located in > /usr/local/bin? > Yes: override the AUTOCONF and AUTOM4TE variables (yes, you need to override both); e.g.:
./configure AUTOCONF=/opt/bin/autoconf AUTOM4TE=/opt/bin/autom4te That's admittedly not very obvious or natural for someone who's not familiar with automake internals. Maybe adding a `--with-autoconf' flag (or similar) to configure would be nice on our part. > With other gnu build deps there is often a --with-*dep=$path_to_dep. > Is there an equivalent when building automake from source? > > Host platform: OS X 10.6.7 > Just out of curiousity: how old is this release, and which autoconf version are they shipping with it? > configure command-line: > > ./../gnu/automake/automake-1.11/configure --prefix=$HOME/Devel > opment/root/usr/local --with-autoconf=$HOME/Development/root/usr/local/bin > > configure output: > > checking whether autoconf is installed... yes > checking whether autoconf works... yes > checking whether autoconf is recent enough... no > configure: error: Autoconf 2.61a-341 or better is required. > > > graham > HTH, Stefano
