[Xcircuit-dev] How to use different version of automake

[Tim Edwards]

Dear Svenn,

> when compiling 3.6.145 I get an error message that I don't have
> automake-1.9 installed. That's right because I have automake-1.10
> installed. How can I tell the build process that I have
> autoomake-1.10? Shouldn't these things be intelligent enough to
> discover that a newer version is installed?

The autoconf system has always seemed a bit brain-dead to me, in
spite of its advances over alternatives such as "imake".

If you end up with automake incompatibility, you will need a couple
of extra steps in the compile procedure:

	aclocal
	automake
	autoconf
	./configure
	make
	make install

This is written in the xcircuit install instructions, but it's buried
somewhere in the middle of the page.

					---Tim

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