Re: autogen.sh failure

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

w0o <woo bofh ru> writes:

> I can't compile gtk+ (as well as all other things taken from gnome
> cvs)...  everything is stucked on autogen.sh.. is says that my
> automake is too old... (huh?)
> 
> ===snip-snip===
> $autogen.sh
> You must have automake 1.4-p1 installed to compile Gtk+.
> Get ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/automake/automake-1.4-p1.tar.gz
> (or a newer version if it is available)
> ===snip-snip===
> 
> But I have  automake  1.7...

you explicitely need automake-1.4 for a lot of packages. Automake
(finally) has versioned binaries so that you can install automake-1.4
and automake-1.7 side by side.


Salut, Sven