Thanx for your help. I'm unclear though still on how to use it. I've never created automake scripts myself, just downloaded sources which use them. I dont even really know which packages there are and how they work together. (Surely i guess i should RTFM, but i don't know where to find the right thing that explains all, so i'm open if i'm told what to read.).
As I understood I have to install autotools-0.4.0-3sfnet.i586.rpm and one of the other rpms which contain (do they?) all the auto* packages in two versions. On Redhat 7.2 autoconf 2.13 and automake 1.4p5-2 (what version is this effectively?) is installed so i guess to have also automake 1.5* (which to use?) installed i deinstall autoconf and automake which are installed and install your pachage - i guess autotools-for-ac.2.13.lt.1.4.2.am.1.5-2sfnet.i586.rpm? What I before tried is to upgrade from 1.4 to 1.5 and there were many unresolved conflicts - and surely there are conflicts too when installing them at the same time. How were they solved in your packages? Thanx in Advance, Lukas >I've hacked a script that does the trick for me - as I want to use different >combinations of autoconf libtool and automake. The toplevel makefile has >a magic var-set line, so the start of my Makefile.am usually looks like: > >AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign >AUTOTOOL_VERSION = autoconf-2.52 libtool-1.4.2 automake-1.5 > >Then I call a script "autotools" that looks into the Makefile.am and modifies >the $PATH accordingly, not much unlike the description about "stow", the >combinations are compiled with separate $prefix paths. The helper script and >all the combinations are ready-made as rpm files, just pick them up and >install. > >You can find everything in the download section of http://ac-archive.sf.net >in the "autotools" section - here's the direct link: >http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=32081 > >They are a bit dated, I did not have time to rebuild the rpms with the >newest breed of autoconf and automake generations. And actually, I'm >currently waiting for Mandrake to fix a severe bug in bash before doing >interesting things (sorry to alexandre, the bug affects the ac-archive >rpms making quite definitly, so no good time to roll a new release). > >cheers, guido > >
