Re: specifying an autoconf version

["Sergio Cuéllar Valdés" <herrsergio@gmail.com>]

On 12/19/06, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com> wrote:
> This seems to be a simple question but I could not find a proper way to do
> this. I am trying to install software on a old computer with gcc-2.9, two
> versions of autoconf 2.13, 2.53. The defaults point to 2.13 which is
> installed in /usr/bin .The 2.53 version is installed in some arbitrary
> location.
>
> Now I want to compile some software on this system which requires autoconf >
> 2.50. So I would like to use autoconf 2.53 instead of the default 2.13 . What
> is the easiest way to override the default and ensure that 2.53 autoconf is
> used instead of 2.13? There seems to be no option in the configure script. Is
> there any other elegant way?
>
> thanks
> raju

Hi,

I think you should set the variable AUTOCONF to the path where is the
binary you want to use.

Best regards,
Sergio Cuellar

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