On 4 Dec, Bob Proulx wrote: > Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> would somebody be please to kind to tell a poor newbie how to >> bootstrap the cvs-version of autoconf. >> >> I haven't found any bootstrap script. > > It is called './configure'. > > I will guess that something appears to be wrong with the way you did a > cvs checkout of the autoconf sources. How did you get them? The That's probably the case I did (just once again) cvs -z3 -d:ext:anoncvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/webcvs/autoconf co autoconf which did not contain any file 'configure' > following page documents how to get the sources by CVS. > > http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=autoconf > > The following command is documented there. > > CVS_RSH=ssh cvs -d :ext:anoncvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/cvsroot/autoconf co autoconf > Thanks, now I see the configure file, as well. I'd like to suggest to disable access to ext:anoncvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/webcvs/autoconf Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf