Re: [PATCH] Indicate that you need Autoconf 2.61a-341 or newer to build current Automake.

[James Youngman]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 1:30 AM, Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:
> James Youngman wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: James Youngman <address@hidden>
>> ---
>>  README-prereq |    3 +++
>>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/README-prereq b/README-prereq
>> index 91676f4..d7c9c36 100644
>> --- a/README-prereq
>> +++ b/README-prereq
>> @@ -27,5 +27,8 @@ getting the prerequisites for particular systems.
>>      $ cd automake && ./configure --prefix=$HOME/coreutils/deps
>>      $ make install
>>
>> +  4. In order to build the current Automake code you will need
>> +  Autoconf 2.61a-341 or newer.
>> +
>
> Isn't point 2 talking about autoconf?
> Are the versions listed in bootstrap.conf not sufficient?

the bootstrap.conf file lists the dependencies of coreutils.   The
coreutils source will build with Autoconf 2.61, but you cannot built
Automake from its source repository with that version of Autoconf.
Building Automake from its source respository is necessary to get
1.10a, since that's not a release version.

James.