Re: Chicken/egg problem building from a 'git clone'

From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Date: Feb 6, 2009, 05:12 UTC
Message-ID: <buobptg6tek.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0902052238510.4851-100000@localhost.localdomain>

Joi Ellis <gyles19@visi.com> writes:

> Because there is no configure script provided, and because my autoconf
> is considered too old, I simply can't start the build process because
> I can't generate the missing configure script.

Er, why don't you upgrade to a less ancient version of autoconf...?

Autoconf 2.59 (which is what it seems to want) was released like 5 years ago!

-Miles

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