[maemo-developers] Automake >1.8.5?

[From: Jussi Kukkonen]

dmenns1 wrote:
> I had successfully compiled 'libgphoto2' and 'gphoto2' from a tar/gz
> package, but now I am attempting to go one step further by doing the
> same thing using the SVN 'trunk' source.  However, this requires that I
> run the following command:
> 
> autoreconf --install --symlink
> 
> When I do so within my chinook scratchbox environment, I get the
> following errors:
> 
> configure.ac:15: require Automake 1.9, but have 1.8.5
> autoreconf2.50: automake failed with exit status: 1


scratchbox has several versions of automake, including 1.9. You can use
them by setting environment variable SBOX_DEFAULT_AUTOMAKE (although
there may be other ways too). This should work:
  export SBOX_DEFAULT_AUTOMAKE=1.9

 Jussi