<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2006-09-26 17:04:24 -0500, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> On 2006-09-25 17:25:01 -0500, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> >>> I will pull coreutils and gnulib from CVS also and report back. >> Okay I got a fresh clean copy of coreutils+gnulib, ran ./bootstrap, >> complained only a tiny bit about the hu language (smth about 2 or >> more suffixes for this language? I didn't save the output), but >> otherwise a good run. (Some months ago I did get autoconf-2.60 >> installed into both /usr and /usr/local [never know which is going >> to be used ;) ].) >> [snip] > > In case of dups, I checked to see the newer m4's are in > /usr/local/share/aclocal, others are in /usr/share/aclocal, and I > always do this in the build environment: > export ACLOCAL_FLAGS='-I /usr/local/share/aclocal -I /usr/share/aclocal'
That sounds risky. I wouldn't. You might easily end up using an incompatible .m4 file. That can lead to subtle and hard-to-diagnose failures.