Hi!Automake and autoconf aren't fully backwards compatible so it makes sense to require a specific version. It may work with other versions too but it's impossible to guarantee.
On the other hand you can have multiple versions installed. There is a generic automake wrapper that will try to call the best matching version (usually the newest one). But if you run automake-xyz directy you will get that specific version.
See if your operating system and distribution provides a package for automake-1.7 and install that.
Regards, Paul Chitescu On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Halton Huo wrote:
Hi I'm trying to build gtk from trunk code. found it only allows automake-1.7, could somebody tell me why? I have automake-1.10 installed. $./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr ./autogen.sh: automake-1.7: not found You must have automake 1.7.x installed to compile Gtk+. Install the appropriate package for your distribution, or get the source tarball at http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/ Thanks, Halton.