On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 03:21:56PM -0500, Steve Bellovin wrote:
> I'm having trouble trying to build libwww on a freshly-installed system
> with pkgsrc freshly updated from a mirror.
> 
> The problem is a conflict about versions of autoconf and automake.
> Starting with nothing installed, I get autoconf213 and automake14 built
> by pkgsrc.  But libwww fails to build:
> 
> ===> Configuring for libwww-5.4.0nb1
> cd /usr/pkgsrc/www/libwww/work/w3c-libwww-5.4.0;  /usr/pkg/bin/aclocal-1.4 &&  /usr/pkg/bin/automake-1.4 -i &&  /usr/pkg/bin/autoconf-2.13
> FATAL ERROR: Autoconf version 2.50 or higher is required for this script
> *** Error code 2
> 
> Manually installing later versions of automake and autoconf doesn't help.
> I thought that setting AUTOCONF_REQD to 2.13 in the Makefile would solve
> it, but it doesn't.

you mean AUTOCONF_REQD=2.50?

> This is a critical problem, because lots of things I require (like
> teTeX and magicfilter) seem to need libwww.  Has anyone else seen
> this?

looks like a new version of w3c-libwww was imported without changing the
makefiles...

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