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Automake-1.5 is known to be too new for some applications. KDE-CVS is mostly reported not to work well with this automake release and downgrading to version 1.4-p5 is recommended if you start experiencing any problems with this release.
Install Automake by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr && make install
The Automake package contains the aclocal and automake programs
Automake includes a number of Autoconf macros which can be used in packages; some of them are actually required by Automake in certain situations. These macros must be defined in the aclocal.m4-file; otherwise they will not be seen by autoconf.
The aclocal program will automatically generate aclocal.m4 files based on the contents of configure.in. This provides a convenient way to get Automake-provided macros, without having to search around. Also, the aclocal mechanism is extensible for use by other packages.
To create all the Makefile.in's for a package, run the automake program in the top level directory, with no arguments. automake will automatically find each appropriate Makefile.am (by scanning configure.in) and generate the corresponding Makefile.in.
Automake-1.5 needs the following to be installed:
sh from the bash package
cmp from the diffutils package
chmod from the fileutils package
cp from the fileutils package
ls from the fileutils package
mkdir from the fileutils package
mv from the fileutils package
rm from the fileutils package
grep from the grep package
make from the make package
perl from the perl package
sed from the sed package
basename from the sh-utils package
expr from the sh-utils package
sleep from the sh-utils package
cat from the textutils package
tr from the textutils package