"Steven Shaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 06/12/06, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It's probably one of these: >> - improper installation of autoconf or automake >> - autom4te directory created by some other version of tools >> >> You're not the first to get that diagnostic: >> >> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/bug-automake/2004/msg00183.html >> >> First try removing autom4te/. > > This was on a fresh checkout.
Are you sure? With a fresh checkout (i.e., no preexisting autom4te*/ dir), if you run aclocal -I m4, you get that error? >> If that doesn't work, see if you have the right tools early in your path. > > I have automake-1.10 in my PATH. What are the other "right tools"? autoconf, 2.61 is the latest stable release, but 2.60 should work. Maybe even 2.59, but please don't. I've been trying hard to encourage people not to try to push the envelope on the dev tools. Just use the latest. People building from a tarball can expect things to work with truly minimal prerequisites, *not* developers running ./bootstrap.
