[Xastir] Ubuntu 6.10 Bootstrap error

[Tom Russo]

On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 04:24:09PM +0000, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <jronan at tssg.org> flavor, containing:
> 0n at lab-laptop:~/sources/xastir$ aclocal --version
> aclocal (GNU automake) 1.4-p6

That's really old, indicating a very outdated automake package.

> j0n at lab-laptop:~/sources/xastir$ automake --version
> automake (GNU automake) 1.4-p6

Yep.

Per README.CVS, you  need at least automake version 1.6.3 and autoconf 2.53
to build CVS xastir.  You've got a recent autoconf, but a woefully out of
date automake (the automake I use for xastir is 1.9.6).

The best bet for doing this without mucking with your system's autotools is
to download automake and autoconf sources (www.gnu.org will get you started),
then configure them with "--prefix" options so they go to some
nonstandard place (say, ~/src/xastir/bin -- this is what I've done on some
particularly rude systems),  then build and install them there.  It's the
work of a few seconds, as these tools are small.  Once you've got that done, 
just put that nonstandard place earlier in your path than the system's
autoconf/automake location, and you should be good to go.

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