# yum install emacs #autoconf build requires emacs (20MB)
# rpmbuild --rebuild http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/source/SRPMS/autoconf-2.63-1.fc10.src.rpm
# rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch/autoconf-2.63-1.fc8.noarch.rpm
- Note Autoconf 2.61a-341 or newer is needed to build automake-1.10a in step 3.
+ Note Autoconf 2.61a-341 or newer is needed to build automake-1.10b in step 3.
Apply the same method to install the lzma package.
[FIXME: mention xz when it's packaged]
- 3. The latest released automake (1.10.1) was not new enough, so we download
- and build automake-1.10a from its repository and make it available
+ 3. The latest stable automake (1.10.1) was not new enough, so we download
+ and build automake-1.10b or newer from its repository and make it available
just to coreutils:
# yum install help2man #required to build automake fully
$ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/automake.git
- $ cd automake && ./configure --prefix=$HOME/coreutils/deps
+ $ cd automake
+ $ git checkout --track origin/next -b next
+ $ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/coreutils/deps
$ make install
Now we can build coreutils as described in README-hacking