On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 02:39:21PM -0400, Bennett Helm wrote: > On Aug 6, 2007, at 2:15 PM, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 01:30:11PM -0400, Bennett Helm wrote: > > > >> Everytime I configure LyX recently, I've been getting the following: > >> > >> configure.ac:7: `automake requires `AM_CONFIG_HEADER', not > >> `AC_CONFIG_HEADER' > >> > >> which causes configure to abort. If I run autogen.sh and then > >> configure, I still get the error message, but configure continues. > >> Does someone know the solution here? > > > > I think that you have an old version of automake. Looking at > > http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_mono/ > > automake.html#Optional > > I see the following: > > > > AC_CONFIG_HEADERS > > Automake will generate rules to rebuild these headers. Older > > versions > > of Automake required the use of AM_CONFIG_HEADER (see Macros); > > this is > > no longer the case today. > > Yep -- upgrading automake did it. (And the cause of the recent > problem for me must have been my recent redoing of my macports setup: > I apparently forgot to reinstall the latest version of automake.)
According to http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/automake/NEWS?rev=1.331&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=automake I think we should bump the required automake version from 1.5 to 1.7. JMarc? -- Enrico
