On Friday 25 July 2003 11:16 pm, dfox wrote:
> Hello people
>
> I have my setup box mostly setup ;). With all the reinstalling and
> updating I've done in the past week, trying to find packages, getting
> updates, and so forth, I seem to be missing autoconf again. Now I
> remember that there were two divergent versions of autoconf, 2.1.3 (which
> I just installed) and 2.54 (which I can't find an rpm for). In the past I
> went unto gnu.org for this, is that still the best option? Increasingly
> things (I'm trying to compile a new gtkatlantic) :) are requiring the
> 2.54 autoconf.
>
> ISTR as well there was a way to set things up so that you don't have two
> conflicting versions of it on your box, using /etc/alternatives, just
> like gcc.
>
2.57 and 2.1.3 are both in the distro as rpm packages, you should not have to 
compile from source.  It is possible that the non-default one is not on the 
cd's, but is on the mirrors.  I have a local mirror here and both exist in 
the distro.
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