Re: New auto tools

[Neil Jerram]

>>>>> "Rob" == Rob Browning <address@hidden> writes:

    Rob> Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:
    >> I have a mostly stable Debian distro (2.2).  Does anyone know
    >> 
    >> - how to persuade dselect/apt-get to install the new versions
    >> of automake etc. over the ones I already have

    Rob> I'd say the easiest thing to do might be to temporarily
    Rob> change your /etc/apt/sources.list to point to unstable, then
    Rob> run

    Rob>   apt-get update
    Rob>   apt-get install automake autoconf libtool

Thanks very much for the help, Rob.  However, the apt-get install line
wants to pull in much much more that I want right now (27Mb of it,
including gcc 3 + associated libc etc.).  Is there a way of avoiding
pulling in these dependencies?

        Neil