[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#8891) Help wanted to compile in SuSE 9.1

["Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa" <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8891 >

On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Jason Short wrote:

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> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8891 >
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> > [vasc - Wed Jun 02 12:43:58 2004]:
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> > On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Marcelo Burda wrote:
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> > > <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8891 >
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> > > this error is normal or not? i never use automake
> > > thx for your comment.
> > >
> > >  automake --version
> > > automake (GNU automake) 1.8.3
> > >
> > > note: somme problem with --disable-autoconf2.52
> >
> > Got the same problem here in Fedora 2. I had to downgrade automake to
> > 1.7.x and autoconf to 2.57. Automake 1.8.x and autoconf 2.59 do not work
> > with the current Freeciv configuration...
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> I have automake 1.8.5 and autoconf 2.59, and I have no problems.
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> But I agree downgrading your automake is probably your best bet.  I have
> no idea what could be causing your problem.

Fedora 2 comes with automake 1.8.3 and autoconf 2.59 by default. But I
think I tried automake 1.7.x and autoconf 2.59 and that didn't work
either. Perhaps this is a bug in automake 1.8.3. Are you certain
1.8.5/2.59 are the versions that autogen.sh actually used?

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa