On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 01:27:45PM +0000, Gerd Knorr wrote:
> >  That is true, but the latest make can only be build in presence of
> >  the latest autoconf and latest automake (at least later that the
> >  ones shipped with RedHat 8.0).
> 
> Whoops?  Last time I compiled make it didn't need anything but a working
> compiler.  No autoconf, no automake.

Well make-3.80 mentions in NEWS:
> Version 3.80
> [...]
> * Updated to autoconf 2.54 and automake 1.7.  Users should not be impacted.

and furtheron:
Makefile.am:AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = 1.7 dist-bzip2 check-news
configure.in:AC_PREREQ(2.54)

RedHat 8.0 comes with make-3.79.1, autoconf-2.53 and automake-1.6.3.

> Even no make utility, there was a shell script to build the thing:
> 
> $ ./configure
> $ sh build.sh

Didn't try that, as build.sh must be generated from build.sh.in and this needs
autoconf again (Chicken and Egg?), so I thought better do it the hard way and
update all three rpms. Perhaps there might have been an easier way, if one
didn't want the rpms, but I prefer packaging such upgrades.
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