Enrico Forestieri wrote: > On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 10:13:51AM +0000, Jean-Pierre Chrétien wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> autoconf 2.60 is the current version with Debian/testing, so >> ./autogen.sh chokes, and it is necessary to revert to 2.59 to build >> lyx-1.5.0svn >> >> Does autogen.sh really fail with autoconf 2.60 ?
No. "Only" the created makefiles are wrong in certain circumstances. > > No. I use it with seemingly no ill effects. Note that 2.60 is considered > a part of the ongoing 2.5x development sequence. No, it is not. At least they changed the interface, and that makes it start a new development sequence for me. Somebody needs to check out the changes and see whether we are affected by them. IIRC autoconf 2.60 installs our man pages into the wrong directory if a version suffix is used. Building seems to work fine. Georg
