Mats Erik Andersson <[email protected]> writes: >> +# Build prerequisites. >> +buildreq="\ >> +autoconf 2.68 >> +automake 1.11 >> +bison 2.3 >> +m4 - >> +makeinfo - >> +help2man - > > The dependency on atoconf-2.68 makes bootstrapping > impossible on Debian 6.0 Squeeze, the present stable > release. This particular issue ships autoconf-2.67, > automake-1.11.1, and bison-2.4.1. Thus you are > requiring a top-notch Autoconf, but you accept > an older Bison. I disagree on the choice of this > recent version of Autoconf. You are certainly > causing similar issues for the BSD targets.
I agree -- is there any reason we really need autoconf 2.68 instead of 2.67? My system is a Debian Squeeze as well, so I only have 2.67 installed. /Simon
