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Subject: RE: autoconf/automake problem: simple testcase [was RE: autoconf/automake: just can't get it to work at all.]
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 22:27:43 -0600
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> From: Dave Korn
[snip]
>   I don't get that.  I've got the default alternatives set, 
> so IIUIC it should have selected the most recent autoconf, 
> shouldn't it?
> 
>   I imagine this is intended to work with everything in the 
> default installation state, but as you see it certainly doesn't WFM!

You use text mounts?  The alternatives package was(is?) busted, and only
worked if /var/lib/alternatives is binmode.  If this is it, IIRC correctly
the files therein will have to be manually d2u'ed and/or otherwise fixed up.

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Gary R. Van Sickle


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