Subject: bug#67796: Automake is not compatible with older Autoconfs we provide

From: Giovanni Biscuolo <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 10:42:12 +0100

Hi Ekaitz

Ekaitz Zarraga <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hi,
>
> We have automake packaged, but it's not compatible with older autoconf 
> versions so autoconf is not very usable at this point.
>
> ```
> Ekaitz@tuxedo ~/projects/nlnet/gcc/libstdc++-v3 (riscv)$ guix shell 
> automake [email-masked]

is there a reason you need to "pin" to the 2.64 version?

[...]

> configure.ac:74: error: Autoconf version 2.65 or higher is required

we now have autoconf-2.68 and -2.69 and autoconf is autoconf-2.69

does this solve the issue you reported?

Happy hacking, Gio'

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Giovanni Biscuolo

Xelera IT Infrastructures