Re: 'gettext' build failure

[Werner LEMBERG]

> The problem was that I had a local installation of 'autoconf' in
> `/usr/local` but was using 'automake' from `/usr`.  This doesn't
> work out of the box; I probably have to update some environment
> variables.  Too lazy to investigte this further, my solution was to
> locally install 'automake' (and 'libtool').  Now everything
> continues smoothly.

I wonder whether mxe should take care of this situation, given that
the most recent autoconf version (2.71) is not working for everything.
Maybe I'm not the only one who quickly installs autoconf 2.69
locally...

It thus probably makes sense if mxe downloads and builds 'autoconf',
'automake', and 'libtool', also adding a proper path in the Makefile
infrastructure to locate the mxe's M4 files of 'aclocal' (for example,
`pkg.m4`).  Maybe not really necessary, but certainly more robust :-)


    Werner