[Xastir] Ubuntu 6.10 Bootstrap error

[Bob Nielsen]

I haven't upgraded to Ubuntu 6.10 yet, but 6.06 includes several  
versions of automake, including 1.9.6.  The package name is  
automake1.9 and this works fine with Xastir.

Bob, N7XY

On Nov 1, 2006, at 8:35 AM, Tom Russo wrote:

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 That's really old, indicating a very outdated automake package.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