I would be afraid of this breaking something someplace else (altho, with these two tools, prolly not.
That said, we use RHEL4 here. For some software requiring newer autoconf versions than what came with RHEL4, I was able to easily compile autoconf (and the required m4) from source and install into /usr/local/ . For m4 1.4.14, I simply did: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/m4 make && make install For autoconf 2.65, I then did: export PATH=/usr/local/m4/bin:$PATH ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/autoconf make && make install On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 09:26 -0400, Steven Jenkins wrote: > On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 4:21 AM, Rod Widdowson <[email protected]> > wrote: > ... > > I guess I care personally only in that I wasted a day in an ultimately > > fruitless attempt to get a recent autoconf/m4 onto my Centos 5 build > > environment. If anyone has a proven working recipe they'd like to share > > (no, the fc srpms don't 'just work') I'd be grateful (like I say, I don't do > > a lot of this). I'll even put it into the wiki if people think that would > > help. > > > > My suggestion is that someone package autoconf rpms for rhel5/fc > family and post them on the OpenAFS repo. In that way, people doing > development on RH-based systems can do a simply rpm upgrade and be off > and running. > > Steven > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel -- ******************************** David William Botsch Programmer/Analyst CNF Computing [email protected] ******************************** _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
