gcc-4.9: How to generate Makefile.in from a modified Makefile.am?

[Andris Pavenis]

On 03/26/2014 05:22 PM, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> On 26 March 2014 15:20, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Svante Signell <svante.signell@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> autoconf 2.69:
>> You must use autoconf 2.65, exactly.
> And as it sounds like you're been messing the tree up, undo all your
> local changes to the files that got touched by the wrong versions of
> autoconf and automake, then start again with the right versions.
>
> Because automake calls "autoconf" the right version must be in your
> PATH, it's not good enough to have "autoconf2.65" installed because
> automake won't invoke that version, it will use "autoconf" from your
> PATH.
>
>
It is not so difficult to configure required versions of autoconf and automake
to install in some arbitrary prefix (like /opt/foobar) and after that add
/opt/foobar/bin to begin of the PATH. I'm regularly using this approach when
building modified versions of gcc

Andris