Re: Debian users having grief compiling CVS? - Read This

[Franklin Belew <frb umr edu>]

On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 09:38:28AM +1100, Greg Schafer wrote:
> 2. Dowloaded the source tarballs of:
> 	autoconf 2.13	<- Note - newer version
the above is in potato
> 	automake 1.3b	<- ditto
I haven't had prblems with the automake 1.3 that is in potato
> 	libtool 1.2d	<- ditto
I filed a wishlist bug to get this in potato
> 	gettext 0.10.35
> 
> 3. Unpacked and installed the above packages in /usr/local
> 
> 
> Note: All 4 packages must be installed in the same place (eg: /usr/local).
> If you leave gettext installed by Debian then have the other 3 installed
> in /usr/local, you will strike grief!
You don't need them in the same place, you just have to add "-I /usr/local/share/aclocal" to your ACLOCAL_FLAGS environment variable.

Frank Belew aka Myth