[Xastir] Ubuntu 6.10 Bootstrap error

[Tom Russo]

On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 09:35:19AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
> 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 That's really old, indicating a very outdated automake package.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.

This, by the way, is documented in FAQ #3.1, "Why do I get errors in 
bootstrap?"  for future reference, since it is indeed a frequently encountered
problem.

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