"Jennis Pruett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > /usr/local/packages/gnu_utilities/bin/install -c autom4te > /users/jennyp/autoconf/autoconf-2.59/bin/autom4te > /usr/local/packages/gnu_utilities/bin/install: `autom4te' and > `/users/jennyp/autoconf/autoconf-2.59/bin/autom4te' are the same file
That's a weird one. It looks to me like you ran the equivalent of "./configure --prefix=`pwd`", that is, you tried to install the program on top of itself. That's a no-no. Instead, please try this, from scratch: cd $HOME mkdir src cd src wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.59.tar.gz gunzip <autoconf-2.59.tar.gz | tar xf - cd autoconf-2.59 sh configure --prefix=$HOME/prefix make make install It is important that $HOME/prefix differs from $HOME/src.
