On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Omer Zak wrote: > I am now working on a software package from SourceForge. > In order to compile the most recent CVS version, I need first to run > autoconf on it. > > Unfortunately, the current version requires autoconf 2.13, and I have > version 2.12 (my stable Linux systemis relatively old, and based upon > RedHat 5.1; and I don't like the idea of destabilizing it by careless > upgrades). > > No problems, look for the appropriate RPM in a recent RedHat version. > RedHat 7.2 has autoconf 2.13 RPM. > > I try to do rpm -U to the new autoconf RPM package.Turns out that it > requires a new version of RPM (version 4 or something like that), and my > old Linux has an old version of RPM (version 2.5). > > I am not aware of any relevant features (for the software package in > question), which really require the new versions of autoconf and RPM to be > used.
Normally I would suggest to install a source RPM and rebuild it. I'm not sure if it would work with RPM 2.5. On the worst case, install autoconf from tarball. -- Tzafrir Cohen /"\ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Taub 229, 972-4-829-3942, X Against HTML Mail http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir / \ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
