bootstrap failed

[Liu Jie]

Hello,

I have run into an issue while trying to build coreutils from git repoz,
before doing that, I have also tried to compile both autoconf and automake
grab from git repoz,
by following the way mentioned at README.prereq but no luck, I have been
frustrated by some other issues.
So I have to download the autoconf-2.6.5 and automake-1.11 gzip package,
autoconf then could be compiled successfully, but something still wrong for
automake,
I commented out the following lines in 'configure', the it could be
compiled.

line start from 2576:
#{ $as_echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: $am_cv_autoconf_version" >&5
#$as_echo "$am_cv_autoconf_version" >&6; }
#if test "$am_cv_autoconf_version" = no; then
#  { { $as_echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: Autoconf 2.61a-341 or better is
required." >&5
#$as_echo "$as_me: error: Autoconf 2.61a-341 or better is required." >&2;}
#   { (exit 1); exit 1; }; }
#fi


coreutils$ ls -l /home/jeff/coreutils/deps/
drwxr-xr-x 2 jeff jeff 352 2009-12-27 15:26 bin
drwxr-xr-x 9 jeff jeff 232 2009-12-27 15:26 share


the issue for compiling coreutils is always occurred in 'bootstrap'
procedure' which shown as following,

./bootstrap: m4/xsize.m4 overrides ._bootmp2/m4/xsize.m4
./bootstrap: cp ._bootmp2/po/Makefile.in.in <http://makefile.in.in/> po/
Makefile.in.in <http://makefile.in.in/> # with edits
./bootstrap: cp ._bootmp2/po/Makevars.template po/Makevars.template # with
edits
./bootstrap: aclocal --force -I m4 ...
m4/getline.m4:9: error: Autoconf version 2.59 or higher is required
m4/getline.m4:9: the top level
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 63
aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 63

I think my autoconf version is meet the requirements,
coreutils$ autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.65
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+/Autoconf: GNU GPL version 3 or later

Sorry for my such stupid question, Any hints and suggestions are
appreciated!!

Best Reagrds,
Jeff