Re: specifying an autoconf version
On Saturday 23 December 2006 08:51, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 23:39 -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Hi,
>
> Doesn't the alternatives system solve this? Try,
>
> update-alternatives --config autoconf
>
> as root.
I forgot to mention that I do not have access to the root password on this
system. Sorry!
raju
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Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
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