[Xastir] Problem under debian "Etch"

[Tom Russo]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 09:59:16AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <archer at eskimo.com> flavor, containing:
> On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, William McKeehan wrote:
> 
> > Looks like you're on the right path now; mine has
> >   -DXASTIR_DATA_BASE=\"/xastir\"
> >
> > Having seent that, I went back and re-ran ./bootstrap.sh
> > I'm seeing some errors there:
> >   Makefile.am:7: option `dist-bzip2' not recognized
> >   scripts/Makefile.am:6: invalid variable `pkglib_SCRIPTS'
> >
> > related?
> 
> Perhaps that last one might be.  Not sure.

I have seen this before, it has always been the result of using a version
of autoconf/automake that is too old.

> > In the past, I've ignored warning/errors during the ./configure step also. I
> > have a few there as well near the end:
> > config.status: WARNING: config/Makefile.in seems to ignore the --datarootdir
> > setting
> 
> Don't recall seeing that one before.  I suspect you might need to
> upgrade or downgrade your autoconf/automake packages in order to
> make this work.  These two packages are somewhat version dependent
> on each other, so you often need to upgrade/downgrade them as a
> pair.

This definitely hints at the wrong version of autoconf/automake.  What
versions do you have?
  autoconf --version
  automake --version
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