Hello,
I have Autoconf 2.64 installed in `/usr/local/bin'
and Autoconf 2.63 installed in
`~/local/autoconf-2.63/bin/'
the latter is not in my path so `which autoconf' gives
`/usr/local/bin/autoconf'
In a project I wanted to check that the configure.ac still works with
autoconf 2.63 so I issued
~/local/autoreconf-2.63/bin/autoreconf which gave the following output
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
aclocal.m4:16: warning: this file was generated for autoconf 2.64.
You have another version of autoconf. It may work, but is not
guaranteed to.
If you have problems, you may need to regenerate the build system entirely.
To do so, use the procedure documented by the package, typically
`autoreconf'.
autoreconf: configure.ac: not running libtoolize: --install not given
...
IIUC, the problem is that aclocal here calls autom4te 2.64 and not 2.63.
As aclocal has support for environement variable AUTOM4TE I wonder if
it would make sense if autoreconf exported this variable to something
sensible. If the variable is already set there is no use of overriding
the user's choice, but if it's not set one could set it to
@bindir@/@autom4te-n...@.
Thanks
Peter
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Peter Johansson
svndigest maintainer, http://dev.thep.lu.se/svndigest
yat maintainer, http://dev.thep.lu.se/yat
