Al West writes: > Hi, > > Over the past couple of days I've been fine tuning my gentoo ebuild scripts > for CVS SimGear and FlightGear. Chris Horler has been great in answering my > dumb questions about the automake and autoconf tools. > > So rather than just ask Chris dumb question I thought I'd come here too ;-) > > My problem is that if I use autotools version 1.5 or 1.6 that flightgear won't > pass configure (simgear is fine past this stage at any of those 2 versions). > The failure comes in that automake --add-missing does not copy over > config.sub and config.guess. If I set WANT_AUTOMAKE to 1.7 or 1.8 then it > preforms this process and it passes ./configure and goes to compile without > any problems. > > My question is should autogen.sh refer to newer versions of autotools or is my > Gentoo broken in this respect (however bear in mind I've compiled over 300 > packages on this setup and not run into the problem as yet)? >
I've also had the config.sub/guess problem on Debian-based Linux, but not on Cygwin. I hadn't twigged before that I was using automake 1.7 on Cygwin, and 1.6 on Linux. So no, I don't think it's perculiar to your system. Cheers - Dave _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
