Re: Building automake1.9 with autoconf2.61

2008-01-28 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Kamaljit, * Kamaljit Singh wrote on Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 04:45:56PM CET: > Couldnt it be that some option maybe added to the > configure/environment variable that it could detect autoconf from the > build area, too. That way we could have a linear build invocation > where autoconf is built f

Re: Building automake1.9 with autoconf2.61

2008-01-25 Thread Kamaljit Singh
Couldnt it be that some option maybe added to the configure/environment variable that it could detect autoconf from the build area, too. That way we could have a linear build invocation where autoconf is built first (not yet installed) and then automake maybe equally happy ? I think this should b

Re: Building automake1.9 with autoconf2.61

2008-01-24 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Kamaljit, * Kamaljit Singh wrote on Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 01:00:52AM CET: > > Moreover automake1.9 is dependent on autoconf2.58+ to be present in > the path that I cant have them in the same sandbox at all !!! I need > to install autoconf first and then try configuring automake. That > doesn

Re: Building automake1.9 with autoconf2.61

2008-01-24 Thread Kamaljit Singh
You missed the point. I am trying to write a "super" configure.ac and create a sandbox that tries to create automake and autoconf and m4. This just calls AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS() with the appropriate directories (automake,autoconf and m4). What you told me is to script this rather than use AC_CONFIG_

Re: Building automake1.9 with autoconf2.61

2008-01-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Kamaljit Singh wrote: > I was hoping to create a src tree which would build automake1.9 and automake-1.9 has been replaced with automake-1.10.1. You should use the later version. ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.10.1.tar.gz > autoconf2.61 and install them in a central place. Writing

Building automake1.9 with autoconf2.61

2008-01-24 Thread Kamaljit Singh
Hi, I was hoping to create a src tree which would build automake1.9 and autoconf2.61 and install them in a central place. Writing a configure.ac for this is quite hard if not impossible. The automake expects and depends on that the directory where its untarred should be called automake-1.9, which