Hello, autoconf-group! I did try to make an autoconf-installation from source. I did fail because of I need autoconf to make autoconf. I simple avoid a bunch of expressions trying to explain the amount of .. unlogic this requirement contain. I feel the wish to write a very large email to with a lot of funny and blaming arguments to express the ridiculousness this approach is based on. Could be a joke of BOFH like using /dev/null to backup.
I don't know what your personal opinion was or is to this matter and therefore I suggest to feel only personally addressed if this matter concerns your personal participation in this matter. I did experience a lot of irregular thinkgs in internet. May be my version was anyway "customized" and the mentioned close-looped depency of autoconf concerns just my personal version I have. I did get it via: #> git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/autoconf what does in fact rooted in my experience not absolutely guarantee that this version is really got from the applied URL. At least this is something like web works for me. Here is the passage of the README that did tell me why I can't create my personal binary: file: README-hacking source: checkout source of autoconf via git (2010-04-14) begin of quote ... We've opted to keep only the highest-level sources in the GIT repository. This eases our maintenance burden, (fewer merges etc.), but imposes more requirements on anyone wishing to build from the just-checked-out sources. For example, you have to use recent stable versions of the maintainer tools we depend upon, including: - Autoconf 2.60+ <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/> - Automake 1.10+ <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/> - Help2man 1.29+ <http://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/> - M4 1.4.6+ <http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/> - Perl 5.005_03+ <http://www.cpan.org/> - Texinfo 4.8+ <http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/> ... end of quote I would really like to hear any reflection to this obscure matter though can understand that this matter is that "funny" you want to avoid a personal reflection to this issue. No interest neither to public this email nor any response. Just want to hear that any member of autoconf-dev-staff is aware of this obscurity. Doesn't matter?!? How to simple use autoconf on very new hardware? regards, Frank <img src="http://www.bigstring.com/refer.php?img=68"; width="1" height="1">Start making money with PeopleString!
