running automake & autoconf

[Niels Möller]

Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> writes:

> Am I doing something wrong (not giving correct command line options,
> not running things in the right order) or do I simply need another
> version of automake than 1.4? doc/configuration is a bit vague on this
> subject.

I don't know exactly what gmp expects, but upgrading automake sounds
like something to try. automake-1.4 is pretty old. gmp's configure.in
says it needs autoconf-2.52, so you can probably upgrade to the latest
versions of autoconf (2.57) and automake (1.7.3).

/Niels