[Xastir] New configure.ac script

[Chuck Byam]

On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 23:44, KC7ZRU - Tate wrote:
> OK,
> 
> Nice. Well, xastir is the reason I got 'into' linux in the first place.
> I do thank you all for dragging me kicking and whining up the learning
> curve!!
> 
> So far, I've had to update autoconf and automake - not a big deal in
> themselves. Just did the source deal from the GNU ftp server - and of
> course, things aren't working right. Looks like Redhat (7.1) doesn't use
> 'standard' GNU paths ::sigh::
> 
> Finally (I think) got it all working - but the great penguin only knows
> what else I may have screwed up.
> 
> First, installed autoconf - changed path in ~/.bach_profile to include
> the 'new' /usr/local/bin where autoconf now resides. Oh, there's still
> the older copy still over in /usr/bin that Redhat installed.
> 
> Tried the same thing with automake - but alas, even with the 'correct'
> path, it's not found.
> 
> So, I just copied the new automake from /usr/local/bin to /usr/bin -
> overwriting the old one.
> 
> So far so good.
> 
> May well go back and overwrite the old autoconf with the new one too -
> yea, I'm a glutton.
> 
> Lessons accepted in the tone offered

IIRC, depending on the version of Red Hat two versions of autostuff were
available, the then development version and the "stable" version.  You
can tell the difference because the "dev" version had the version
numbers appended to them.  To get these to work, and possibly not break
something else your using, modify the bootstrap file and use the
fullname (eg., automake-1.6.3).  If your building autostuff from source,
pass the path in a --prefix=/usr/bin (on RH distro's)  Even on more
recent distro's 8.0+ old versions are installed and can be called by
using the filename-version construct.

While I'm not going to sit here and tell you to upgrade your distro,
there are lots of improvements in the later versions that may well be
worth your time to invest in an upgrade.  If you need a high bandwidth
low use ftp site for downloading of iso's (and RPM's) let me know.

-- 
Chuck Byam <cbyam at virginia.edu>