[splint-discuss] Why require specific versions of automake and aclocal? (fwd)

[peteran at ludd.luth.se]

I had a bit of a similar problem.

It had to do with mandrakes "clever" support for having both 1.4 and 1.7
versions of automake provided by a "not so clever" wrapper script.

result was that ./configure failed, try with ./bootstrap failed, get paranoid
and run all by hand, fail. Accidentally tab-complete and find out that there are
several versions of the tools available. Hand type "aclocal-1.7 && autoheader 
&& autoconf && automake-1.7 -a -c" smile. Get angry at mandrake and rpm -e old
automake.

/Peter Anttu

Quoting Simon Hosie <Simon.Hosie at connexionz.co.nz>:

> Tim Van Holder:
> > [...] However, the CVSrepository also contains automake output, and
> > automake 1.6 and up have the understandable but annoying habit to
> > hardcode their own version into the makefiles [...]
> > So I would suggest removing configure, aclocal.m4 and all automake
> > generated Makefile.in files from the CVS repository.  Alternatively, 
> > add a note to README that running the bootstrap script is recommended
> > after a CVS checkout.
> 
> Kyle Hamilton:
> > The problem, of course, is that it requires == 1.6 on both of them. 
> I
> > have 1.7 installed.  I had to symlink $HOME/bin/automake-1.6 to
> > /usr/bin/automake-1.7, and same with aclocal, to get it to work.
> > (This is from CVS on sourceforge.)
> 
> Did you consider/try what I've quoted above?  That is, did you try
> manually removing the files that shouldn't be there, or try running the
> bootstrap script (whatever that is)?
> 
> Sometimes I try 'make distclean' right after a configure, and then
> another configure.
> 
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