[kaffe] Upgrading autotools requirements to a more recent version

[Greg Wooledge]

gonzo (Robert.N.Gonzalez at williams.edu) wrote:

> i'm using autoconf 2.13 and automake 1.4p6 on Debian/unstable.  i do have
> autoconf2.50 on my box, though the command "autoconf" refers to 2.13 by
> default.

Current Debian unstable uses autoconf 2.57.

Prior to this, Debian had both autoconf 2.13 and 2.5x simultaneously.
/usr/bin/autoconf was a wrapper script which would invoke autoconf2.5x
if a "configure.ac" file existed in `pwd`, or autoconf2.13 otherwise.
This is true even in woody (Debian 3.0), so it's been that way for a
fairly long time.

Try this:

cd /tmp
touch configure.ac
autoconf --version

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