Carefully asking for some guidance with autoconf 2.14

[jesterbam]

Hi folks. The new 5.0.0.14 now requires autoconf 2.14 ( I have 2.13) or higher. I have done a bit of searching both here and on the web only to find a zillion flavors of autoconf up to 2.59 for a several of distros.....

I was wondering if anyone may have a link to the flavor of autoconf that works with RH 7.2? I will try to find the update instructions once I find the correct site.

Thanks in advance.

[I<3EQ]

RedHat 7.2 has been EoLed by RedHat and is no longer supported (as in I don't believe they even provide security updates anymore) so your best solution would probably be to install a new distribution.

If you're bent on staying with your current system, your best choice will be to compile and install a newer version of autoconf on your own. You can find the source and instructions here: http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/

[tanner]

Hi folks. The new 5.0.0.14 now requires autoconf 2.14 ( I have 2.13) or higher. I have done a bit of searching both here and on the web only to find a zillion flavors of autoconf up to 2.59 for a several of distros.....

Use the source Luke!

Grab the src.rpm from 7.3 and compile it up

Download autoconf-2.53-8.src.rpm.
% rpm --rebuild autoconf-2.53-8.src.rpm

Just install as root.

[jesterbam]

Thanks for the replies.
I see from I<3EQ post the versions jump from 2.13 to 2.50

Does 2.50 NOT work with 7.2? Because the probability of OS upgrade failure is extremly high since I am a Linux neeb I would really like to stick with 7.2 and just upgrade autconf.

[Zaphod]

jesterbam,
Please read more carefully, the minimum required version of autoconf listed both in my posts and in the INSTALL file is 2.54, and NOT 2.14.

Enjoy,
Zaphod (dohpaZ)

[jesterbam]

Opps sorry was reading off the screen....Does 2.54 work with 7.2?

[Zaphod]

I don't know of a reason that it shouldn't. Generally though I suggest against using End Of Life versions (http://www.redhat.com/security/archives.html) of distributions. If for some reason you desperately need to stay on Red Hat 7.2, you should be able to find some type of functional RPM on RPM Find (http://www.rpmfind.net) or you can just grab the tarball from the autoconf web site (http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/) and install using it.

Enjoy,
Zaphod (dohpaZ)

[jesterbam]

Thanks for the help Zap!!

[Zaphod]

Thanks for the help Zap!!
Please note, I am not a sound effect ... I am Zaphod, Zaph, or even just Z.

Thanks and Enjoy,
Zaphod (dohpaZ)

[jesterbam]

Please accept my apologies. No disrespect was intended. Thanks again for the help.

[jesterbam]

OK doofuss here again.....

1. I downloaded 2.54 tar
2. Extracted it to a directory i craeted called autoconf
3. Read the readme file-that included the Install instructions
4. They said to : cd to the directory 2.54 was extracted too -did that
5. ./configure -did that
6. make -did that
7. make install -did that

at this point I thought I was done so I followed my normal SEQ new compile but when I did : make -f Makefile.dist

it ran to the point :Checking Autoconf version.....done!
>> Using Autoconf version.......2.13

What did I miss? Do i need to somehow uninstall 2.13? Or place all the 2.54 files in a specific directory?

Sorry to bug you folks. Thanks in advance for any help.

[purple]

Probably need to do ./configure --prefix=/usr so that it installs into the system over the pre-existing 2.14 version. I don't know anything about mandrake, but I assume it installs its packages into /usr and not /usr/local where the tarball you got probably default to /usr/local.

[jesterbam]

Thanks Purple.....your suggestion did the trick SEQ is working fine.../salute

[purple]

Heh you got me doing the 2.14 thing. I meant 2.13 but good to hear you're up and going now.

[zomg]

the redhat 9 (http://www.rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/redhat/9/i386/autoconf-2.57-3.noarch.html) autoconf rpm works on both 7.2 and 7.3 to btw