* Simon Waters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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.
There is no more automake package in debian unstable. It has been renamed automake1.4. -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s++: a-- C+++ UL+++ P++ L++ E++ W++ N+ o K- w+ O? M++ V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t++ 5++ X+ R tv++ b+++ DI+ D+ G e h! r- y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
