Re: Building automake1.9 with autoconf2.61

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Kamaljit,

* Kamaljit Singh wrote on Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 04:45:56PM CET:
> Couldnt it be that some option maybe added to the
> configure/environment variable that it could detect autoconf from the
> build area, too. That way we could have a linear build invocation
> where autoconf is built first (not yet installed) and then automake
> maybe equally happy ?

You can probably try, but if the Automake build breaks later, you get to
keep the pieces.
  ./configure am_cv_autoconf_installed=yes \
              am_cv_autoconf_works=yes \
              am_cv_autoconf_version=yes

Cheers,
Ralf