On 11/06/2011 04:36 PM, Manuel Morbitzer wrote:
Hello,
I want to install a new version of autoconf.
Thanks for the report. I'd suggest installing 2.68 from a tarball,
rather than trying to build autoconf.git, unless you are also planning
on sending patches to autoconf.git.
1. Step:
git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/autoconf
2. Step
cd autoconf
3. Step
make
You missed some steps. If you insist on building autoconf.git, then
read README-hacking, which calls out these steps:
0. Pre-install a recent autoconf from a tarball (2.68 is recommended;
README-hacking claims 2.60 or later will work although that may be
outdated information) - this includes getting your choice of
autoconf-nnn.tar.*z, unpacking it, running ./configure, make, make install.
1. clone autoconf.git
2. cd autoconf
3. autoreconf -vi
4. ./configure
5. make
Surely it should be easy to compile autoconf. Autoconf and in any case. :-)
It's MUCH easier to compile autoconf from a tarball; since it's only
developers that need to worry about bootstrapping autoconf.git. But it
is relatively easy to bootstrap even autoconf.git, if you are paying
attention to the instructions present in autoconf.git.
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