[Scribus] Cannot Compile on RH 8
Craig Bradney
cbradney
Thu Oct 23 14:27:33 CEST 2003
If you dont have the right autoconf you get the following when you run
make -f Makefile.dist:
*** YOU'RE USING AUTOCONF 2.13. We suggest updating.
*** autoconf 2.5x works best for now, we will drop
*** support for autoconf 2.13 soon.
Not sure about automake though.
Craig
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 15:12, Bill Carini wrote:
> Is there a way to make configure warn about unsuitable automake/autoconf?
> This would head off a lot of the problems posted to this list.
>
> --Bill
>
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 12:07:44AM +0100, Paul wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > > Keep getting some recursion error on "make". Driving
> > > me nuts. I have tried tarballs of 1.1.1 too, same
> > > thing. Even downloaded the latest cvs and same issue.
> > > What is wrong here, what am I missing. Cvs package
> > > talks about M4 environment var for recursion errors
> > > but no matter what I do with that var it fails.
> >
> > You need automake 1.6 or above and autoconf 2.57. The versions shipped
> > with RH8 aren't up to the job. I would also recommend not using the gcc
> > supplied with RH8 (IIRC, it's 2.96 still), but upgrade to 3.2 (at
> > least).
> >
> > All of the packages you will need are available from rpmfind.net
> >
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