Rebuild failure w/gnome-libs-1.0.8-1rh.src.rpm

[Bob Taylor <brtaylor inreach com>]

In message <37157AC646.9D4CATMCZEN@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net>, 
atmczen@ibm.net wr
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cc:  gnome-list@gnome.org
> Hello Bob,
> 
> On Sun, 11 Apr 1999 19:59:46 -0700
> Bob Taylor <brtaylor@inreach.com> wrote:
> 
> > > > make: @SHELL@: Command not found
> > > > make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 127
> > > > Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.48586 (%build)
> > 
> > I found the problem after the sources compiled fine without rpm. I took
> > *several* looks at the spec file before seeing autoconf there amongst
> > the patches. Just remove/comment out autoconf and do an rpm -ba --clean
> > gnome-libs-rh52.spec.
> I read somewhere on the net there is a subtle bug in earlier version
> of auto tools.
> 
> Updating to autoconf >= 2.13 should fix this problem.  To be on the
> safe side, I recommend that you update to automake >= 1.4 as well.

Michael,

Is this true? If so, where are the updates? Rawhide?

I'm sending this to gnome-list as Red Hat's MTA has, in the past, 
considered
email from me as SPAM. Sucks!

Bob

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