Re: basic help for bare-boned newbie

2002-10-25 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
begin Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > | hi akim, > | first, thank you for responding! > | > | i finally did find out what was wrong: autoconf 2.5x and 2.13 debian > | packages were both installed on my system. the *packages* don't > | conflict but the programs do. inadvertantly, some of

Re: basic help for bare-boned newbie

2002-10-24 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hi akim, first, thank you for responding! i finally did find out what was wrong: autoconf 2.5x and 2.13 debian packages were both installed on my system. the *packages* don't conflict but the programs do. inadvertantly, some of what i did used the 2.5 tools and some used the 2.13 tools. i made

basic help for bare-boned newbie

2002-10-23 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hi all, i'm trying to learn autoconf by converting one of my programs to use autoconf. i'm having difficulty; here's what i tried: % cp Makefile Makefile.orig % mv Makefile Makefile.in % autoscan % mv configure.scan configure.in % autoheader % autoconf autoconf: Undefined