[Scribus] Cannot Compile on RH 8

[Bill Carini]

Is there a way to make configure warn about unsuitable automake/autoconf?
This would head off a lot of the problems posted to this list.

--Bill
 
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 12:07:44AM +0100, Paul wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > Keep getting some recursion error on "make".  Driving
> > me nuts.  I have tried tarballs of 1.1.1 too, same
> > thing.  Even downloaded the latest cvs and same issue.
> >  What is wrong here, what am I missing.  Cvs package
> > talks about M4 environment var for recursion errors
> > but no matter what I do with that var it fails.
> 
> You need automake 1.6 or above and autoconf 2.57. The versions shipped
> with RH8 aren't up to the job. I would also recommend not using the gcc
> supplied with RH8 (IIRC, it's 2.96 still), but upgrade to 3.2 (at
> least).
> 
> All of the packages you will need are available from rpmfind.net
> 

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