On Mon, 23 May 2011, Daniel Herring wrote:
FYI, when I install a new version of the autotools, I do something like
# PATH=/new/path/bin:$PATH
# cd m4; ./configure --prefix=/new/path; make; make install
# cd ../autoconf; ./configure --prefix=/new/path; make; make install
# cd ../automake; ./configure --prefix=/new/path; make; make install
# cd ../libtool; ./configure --prefix=/new/path $OSXOPTS; make; make install
Oh, one other detail. It is often a good idea to tell the new aclocal
where to find m4 files installed in the normal locations. This involves
creating a dirlist file.
http://www.gnu.org/s/hello/manual/automake/Macro-Search-Path.html
The proper versions of everything are found because they are first in PATH.
The OSXOPTS for libtool is needed because Apple ships another program named
libtool. GNU libtool is renamed to glibtool (IIRC). There are a couple ways
of effecting this. IIRC, I use a setting that prefixes the program with a g
(something like --program-prefix=g).
Later,
Daniel
