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-rw-r--r--README-prereq10
-rw-r--r--bootstrap.conf2
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/README-prereq b/README-prereq
index d65fe4853..f6ff48ea5 100644
--- a/README-prereq
+++ b/README-prereq
@@ -16,16 +16,18 @@ getting the prerequisites for particular systems.
# yum install emacs #autoconf build requires emacs (20MB)
# rpmbuild --rebuild http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/source/SRPMS/autoconf-2.63-1.fc10.src.rpm
# rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch/autoconf-2.63-1.fc8.noarch.rpm
- Note Autoconf 2.61a-341 or newer is needed to build automake-1.10a in step 3.
+ Note Autoconf 2.61a-341 or newer is needed to build automake-1.10b in step 3.
Apply the same method to install the lzma package.
[FIXME: mention xz when it's packaged]
- 3. The latest released automake (1.10.1) was not new enough, so we download
- and build automake-1.10a from its repository and make it available
+ 3. The latest stable automake (1.10.1) was not new enough, so we download
+ and build automake-1.10b or newer from its repository and make it available
just to coreutils:
# yum install help2man #required to build automake fully
$ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/automake.git
- $ cd automake && ./configure --prefix=$HOME/coreutils/deps
+ $ cd automake
+ $ git checkout --track origin/next -b next
+ $ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/coreutils/deps
$ make install
Now we can build coreutils as described in README-hacking
diff --git a/bootstrap.conf b/bootstrap.conf
index 0747bb858..4baebb0be 100644
--- a/bootstrap.conf
+++ b/bootstrap.conf
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ gnulib_tool_option_extras="--tests-base=$bt/gnulib-tests --with-tests"
# Build prerequisites
buildreq="\
autoconf 2.61
-automake 1.10a
+automake 1.10b
autopoint -
bison -
gettext -