-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Simon Waters wrote: > > My Debian box has stopped playing ball with packaging gnu chess. > > Attempts to use aclocal now fail with the above error. > > I note that Deian unstable has two autoconf packages installed autoconf > autoconf2.13, however if I force the old 2.13 version (rename > configure.a configure.in ad comment out any AC > _PREREQ bad things happen so I assume 2.13 is ancient history as far as > I'm concerned.
Okay - Debian packages exist for specific versions of automake. The package called automake is incompatible with the package called autoconf in unstable (as of a few days back - 2.57). Upgrading to automake1.7 from automake solved my problem, and several other ones at the same time, whilst telling me how to rewrite my makefiles the "right way". I suspect this is a dependency bug in the Debian packaging system, which ony people who don't know enough about autotools (like me) will experience, as everyone who knows will have upgraded automake already. Simon -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+5zq5GFXfHI9FVgYRAkAtAKCiMoAa28AkdWOqBfV/0fR91L7M7wCgl11R TGHo4WBUuYBfxsEiGXkl2jw= =UmoI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
