[Scribus] Cannot Compile on RH 8

[Craig Bradney]

If you dont have the right autoconf you get the following when you run
make -f Makefile.dist:

*** YOU'RE USING AUTOCONF 2.13. We suggest updating.
*** autoconf 2.5x works best for now, we will drop
*** support for autoconf 2.13 soon.

Not sure about automake though.

Craig

On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 15:12, Bill Carini wrote:
> 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
> >