Re: [Groff] new automake system

[Ulrich Lauther]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 01:17:39AM +0200, Bernd Warken wrote:
>  
> I would improve your install commands a bit into:
> 
> test -d old && rm -rf old
> test -d groff && mv groff old
> git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/groff.git
> cd groff
> git checkout automake2
> ./bootstrap
> mkdir build
> cd build
> ../configure
> make -j
> 
> Bernd Warken

To make this work on my ubuntu 12.04 LTS „Precise Pangolin“ system I had to 
apt-get install autoconf automake libtool texinfo bison flex

and then to install automake 1.12.2 from source, as the version 1.11.3 that
came with apt-get install autoconf was rejected as too old.

Cheers,

  ulrich