On 05/30/2018 11:12 AM, Andy Armstrong wrote:
To give some context to what I am doing, here is the timeline:
I did have Automake version 1.10, but my ultimate goal here is to compile the
nano text editor, which requires at least automake 1.15 and autoconf 2.69.
That's if you are modifying the source files and actually developing
nano on your mainframe. But what's wrong with the (often simpler)
approach of using a more typical development box, probably using
GNU/Linux, with modern autotools already installed, and running 'make
dist' on the nano package there, then copying the tarball over? Once
you've done that, './configure && make' should work without requiring
either automake or autoconf installed on the mainframe. After all, the
point of the autotools is to build self-contained tarballs that no
longer require the presence of the autotools.
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