--YD3LsXFS42OYHhNZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 01:52:38PM +0100, Stefan Gehn wrote: > Moin, >=20 > On Sat, 09 Mar 2002 13:03, Dirk Mueller wrote: > > On Fre, 08 M?r 2002, Neil Stevens wrote: > > - the libtool update does _not_ require an operating system upgrade. > > autoconf is a perl and m4 based package of less than 1MB size in sour= ce. > > compiling and installing it takes less than 5 minutes, it is compilab= le > > out of the box on about each and every broken system you can think of. >=20 > Many people dislike to install perl-based packages because usually it's h= ard=20 > to uninstall them (at least I felt like that with quite some sources usin= g=20 > perl). That's why people prefer packaged-versions of things like automake= =20 > etc. >=20 > > Furthermore many newer distributions ship it by default anyway. =2E. > If you want a newer package of autoconf you usually have tons of dependen= cies=20 > which often lead to updating the whole distro. Please try the installation before saying things like this; they are (sorry= )=20 complete bull. The upgrade I did took more time in downloading then it did= =20 in .configure && make && su -c "make install" > Bye, Stefan aka mETz --=20 Thomas Zander zander@earthling.n= et The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new --YD3LsXFS42OYHhNZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8ijG9CojCW6H2z/QRAsVBAKCG5elYzih1daMFBxWyOM8FnIEjiACgoNme JBYHg/s1xkiLOraFZrtwiTY= =P67F -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YD3LsXFS42OYHhNZ--