I have an equal problem with autoconf from git. Like Patrick I got autoconf (GNU Autoconf) UNKNOWN and because of that other software projects won't compile. I tried echo 2.61a.2.61a.299-9066 > .version in autoconf dir but autoconf doesn't seem to use it (maybe I did something wrong). Best regards, Alex Patrick Welche <address@hidden> wrote: >> There is a potential pitfall when grabbing autoconf via CVS from the >> git repository which is that VERSION is computed by build-aux/git-version-gen >> which runs git describe. If you checked out via CVS, git rightly complains >> that the checkout isn't a git repository. VERSION is then UNKNOWN, rather >> than say 2.61a.265-feef9-dirty. m4_version_prereq([2.57]) eg in local.at >> then fails. >> >> % bin/autoconf --version >> autoconf (GNU Autoconf) UNKNOWN > Thanks for the report. > If you really need to use cvs, you can get by > with something like this: > echo 2.61a.265-feef9-dirty > .version > If enough people care about this (and let us know), > then I'll make it work. _____________________________________________________________________ Der WEB.DE SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! http://smartsurfer.web.de/?mc=100071&distributionid=000000000066 _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
