debian build problems

[David Relson]

At 12:34 PM 7/14/03, Matthias Andree wrote:
>David Relson <relson at osagesoftware.com> writes:
>
> > I've updated my config.guess and config.sub to the newest versions at
> > ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config.  Future bogofilter builds will contain
> > config.guess (2003-07-02) and config.sub (2003-07-04).
>
>I just checked automake-1.7.6's lib directory:
>
>lib/config.guess:timestamp='2003-07-02'
>lib/config.guess:# time-stamp-start: "timestamp='"
>lib/config.sub:timestamp='2003-07-04'
>lib/config.sub:# time-stamp-start: "timestamp='"
>
>So I'd think installing automake-1.7.6 would fix this for
>good. (otherwise, autoreconf may nuke the updated versions -- and they
>don't belong into CVS, because autoreconf builds them).
>
>Remember to run autoreconf -f -i -s -v after the automake update.
>
>As to the packaging, automake takes care of that, too, it runs tar with
>the "h" option, dereferencing symbolic links.

Matthias,

True to past experience, updating automake doesn't just happen.

After unpacking automake-1.7.6.tar.gz, ./configure complains that 
autoconf-2.54 or newer is needed.  "autoconf --version" reports 
2.57.  Something's wrong here :-(

I'll poke at automake-1.7.6 some more and see if I can make it happy.

David