building an up to date VM for unix

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Mon Dec 22 00:37:53 UTC 2003


On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 01:22:48PM -0800, Tim Rowledge wrote:
> Ned Konz <ned at squeakland.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> > There is no configure.in; automake uses configure.ac instead.
> > 
> > Are you using a recent version of autoconf and automake?
> > 
> > autoconf 2.57
> > automake 1.5
> I can confirm from recent frustration that without autoconf 2.57 you
> are utterly screwed. Take care when installing it to confirm that it has
> _actually _ installed.

Perhaps the actual configure script could also be maintained on SF.
Granted, configure.ac is the real source code, but it seems like a
heavy restriction to require an up-to-date autoconf installation in
order to compile a Squeak VM.

Dave




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