>>> "Bill" == Bill Wendling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
Bill> I then can't use the generated Makefiles on a system
Bill> which doesn't have autoconf 2.54 or greater installed:
When you untar an autoconfiscated package on a new system it
should not require Autoconf and Automake. If this happens, it's
a bug (either in the package, or in Automake, or in the system).
The most frequent causes are:
- the package is being unpacked on a networked filesystem such as NFS,
and the client host does not share the same clock as the file server.
- the package was not constructed with `make dist', so some
included files are not up-to-date.
- the user unpacked the tarball with something as evil as `tar -m'.
Note that up to Automake 1.7.6, `make dist' could put
ouf-of-date files in a tarball if "make" is any flavor of BSD
make. 1.7.7 will include a fix for this.
[...]
--
Alexandre Duret-Lutz
