bogofilter installation on debian

[Matthias Andree]

Zhenyu Zhong wrote:
> Thanks a lot.
> Since I am trying to build the bogofilter from scratch on DEBIAN, I have
> automake v1.4-p6 , autoconf v 2.13. I don't know if they are too old. But
> these are the latest version I can find on debian.
> I tried using the configure script from the ftp site. I can run the
> configure successfully. But when I go to ./src and do make, it complains
> "Makefile:17611: *** missing separator.  Stop."
> 
> Any idea on what is going on?

Your tools are definitely too old. If you have downloaded the tarball, use 
./configure (and not ./autogen.sh) to configure bogofilter. If you wish to 
build from CVS, you will, unfortunately, have to install newer automake and 
autoconf versions.

HTH,
Matthias