Is there a way to make configure warn about unsuitable automake/autoconf? This would head off a lot of the problems posted to this list.
--Bill On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 12:07:44AM +0100, Paul wrote: > Hi, > > > Keep getting some recursion error on "make". Driving > > me nuts. I have tried tarballs of 1.1.1 too, same > > thing. Even downloaded the latest cvs and same issue. > > What is wrong here, what am I missing. Cvs package > > talks about M4 environment var for recursion errors > > but no matter what I do with that var it fails. > > You need automake 1.6 or above and autoconf 2.57. The versions shipped > with RH8 aren't up to the job. I would also recommend not using the gcc > supplied with RH8 (IIRC, it's 2.96 still), but upgrade to 3.2 (at > least). > > All of the packages you will need are available from rpmfind.net > -- ********************************************************************** This email was brought to you by the Mutt E-Mail Client (www.mutt.org) and Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Use GnuPG for confidential email. (www.gnupg.org) My public key may be found at wwwkeys.pgp.net **********************************************************************
