[maemo-developers] autoconf upgrade problem

[From: josh.soref at nokia.com]

Kwan Hong Lee wrote:
> What do I have to do for autogen to use the latest autoconf I 
> installed?

Probably depends on your environment.

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 19 Mar 31 08:52 /scratchbox/tools/bin/autoconf
-> sb_autoconf_wrapper
--
        if ($force eq '2.13') {
            ac213 ();
        } elsif ($force eq '2.50' || $force eq '2.59') {
            ac250 ();

    if ($mode eq 'autoreconf' && $arg eq '--install') {
        ac250 ();

# Default to 2.13.
ac213 ();

sub ac213 {
    run_autoconf ("/scratchbox/tools/bin/${mode}2.13");

sub ac250 {
    run_autoconf ("/scratchbox/tools/bin/${mode}2.50");
--

[sbox-test-arm: ~] > ls /scratchbox/tools/bin/autoconf
autoconf       autoconf-2.13  autoconf2.13   autoconf2.50

Personally, I'd probably just manually run autconf2.62 or however it's
spelled.

Instead of installing in /usr, you could install in ~/ and have your
path be of the form:

~/bin:~/usr/bin:$PATH

If ~/usr/bin/autoconf2.62 exists, you could ln -s ~/usr/bin/autoconf2.62
~/bin

And then move on with life.

Installing things to / are imo one of the most foolish things people can
do. For fun just look at all the problems people have w/ /usr/bin/python
(which might be /usr/bin/python: symbolic link to `python2.5', or
/usr/bin/python: symbolic link to `python2.4' or /usr/bin/python:
symbolic link to `python2.3' or ..., where different versions of python
are fairly incompatible, and you never know which things will break if
you change the symlink).