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. > > Hints?
Here is a snippet fro the RPM description for 2.57 -- PLEASE NOTICE ---> this version is meant to coexist with autoconf-2.13 (for backwards compatibility); to that end, the various binaries are actually linked to a script which decides which version to execute. It tries to be clever and will execute 2.5x if `configure.ac' is present, or if `configure.in' contains AC_PREREQ and the value's 3 first letters are stringwise greater than '2.1'. You can also manually select it by providing the environment variable WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5 set to `1' (use WANT_AUTOCONF_2_1 if you want the 2.13 version). -- /g "Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read" -Groucho Marx
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