Re: [Evolution] Problem with automake

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

It should actually expliclty call automake-1.6

(yes, 1.7  can't be used either, what a mess automake has become).

I wonder if there are old files lying about that are interfereing with
it.

On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 00:43 -0500, Andrew Conkling wrote:

> I had a problem configuring libsoup-2.2 CVS snapshot (needed to compile
> evo).  Turns out I needed to update my automake.  Now that I have
> automake1.6 and automake1.7 rpms installed (I'm on Mandrake 9.2), I
> retried and got the same error:
>
> andrew:libsoup$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/libsoup_CVS
> /usr/bin/gnome-autogen.sh
> processing .
> Running libtoolize...
> Running aclocal -I /usr/share/aclocal/gnome2-macros  ...
> Running autoheader...
> Running automake --gnu  ...
> Makefile.am:2: require version 1.6, but have 1.4-p6
> docs/reference/Makefile.am:2: require version 1.6, but have 1.4-p6
>
> It then spits out when it can't find Makefile.in.
>
> I think the problem is that, though I have automake-1.7, it still sees
> my old install of automake-1.4.  (I didn't remove that one because I'm
> afraid other programs on my Mandrake install will still need it.)  How
> do I get autogen.sh to see automake-1.7 instead of automake-1.4?
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew Conkling
>
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