[Monotone-devel] Re: autoreconf --install woes

[Derek Scherger]

graydon hoare wrote:
> Derek Scherger wrote:
>
> > So why has automake determined that it should claim to be version 1.5 
> > then?  aclocal.m4 says generated by aclocal 1.5 ... ??? Can anyone 
> > recommend some good reading on the wide world of autofoobar? ;)
>
>
> well, you've got me stumped. I never really understood the mechanism it 
> uses to determine versions. for a general introduction to the tools, 
> there's always the goat book:
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/

yeesh... that'll keep me reading for a while, it's probably worth reading all the same 
though, considering I've been using the autotools for so long without knowing anything 
about them ;)

this seems to fixe the problem, whatever it is...

$ WANT_AUTOMAKE=1.7 autoreconf --install

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Cheers,
Derek