Re: Duplicated macro's argh

[Eric Dorland]

* Simon Waters (address@hidden) wrote:
> Simon Waters wrote:
> >
> > My Debian box has stopped playing ball with packaging gnu chess.
> >
> > Attempts to use aclocal now fail with the above error.
> >
> > I note that Deian unstable has two autoconf packages installed autoconf
> > autoconf2.13, however if I force the old 2.13 version (rename
> > configure.a configure.in ad comment out any AC
> > _PREREQ bad things happen so I assume 2.13 is ancient history as far as
> > I'm concerned.
> 
> Okay - Debian packages exist for specific versions of automake. The
> package called automake is incompatible with the package called autoconf
> in unstable (as of a few days back - 2.57).
> 
> Upgrading to automake1.7 from automake solved my problem, and several
> other ones at the same time, whilst telling me how to rewrite my
> makefiles the "right way".
> 
> I suspect this is a dependency bug in the Debian packaging system, which
> ony people who don't know enough about autotools (like me) will
> experience, as everyone who knows will have upgraded automake already.

There is no more automake package in debian unstable. It has been
renamed automake1.4.

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