2.5 is included with at least 9.1 and 9.2. Just 'urpmi autoconf2.5' or use rpmdrake to install it.
n Saturday 01 November 2003 07:53 am, Anguo wrote: > hello, > > When I try to install application, compile stuff and so on, > I regularly run into a warning message saying that I should > upgrade autoconf. I have 2.13 and I see here: > http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/ > that the autoconf 2.13 is nearly 5 years old!!! > > I tried urpme autoconf and then urpmi autoconf, but I end up > with the same version... > > I read the following: > > *********************** > $ cat /usr/share/doc/autoconf-2.13/IMPORTANT.README.MDK > -- PLEASE NOTICE ---> this version is meant to coexist with > autoconf-2.5x; > to that end, the various binaries are actually linked to a > script which > decides which version to execute. It tries to be clever and > will execute > 2.5x if `configure.ac' is present, or if `configure.in' > contains AC_PREREQ > and the value's 3 first letters are stringwise greater than > '2.1'. If > anything fails, you can manually select 2.13 by providing > the environment > variable WANT_AUTOCONF_2_1 set to `1' (use WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5 > if you want > the 2.5x version). > *********************** > > but I still get: > $ autoconf --version > Autoconf version 2.13 > > $ export WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5=1 > $ autoconf --version > Autoconf version 2.13 > > > > and other applications are still complaining about it... > > I tried to download the source files for autoconf 2.5*. > I did > #./configure > #make > #make INSTALL > > but the result is the same... > > What am I missing? > > thanks, > > Anguo -- /g "Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read" -Groucho Marx
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