Comments on: install the latest autoconf and automake on mac os 10.6 http://www.mattvsworld.com/blog/2010/02/install-the-latest-autoconf-and-automake-on-mac-os-10-6/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed bring it on, world! Mon, 26 Sep 2011 03:28:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: links for 2010-11-09 « Dan Creswell’s Linkblog http://www.mattvsworld.com/blog/2010/02/install-the-latest-autoconf-and-automake-on-mac-os-10-6/comment-page-1/#comment-780 links for 2010-11-09 « Dan Creswell’s Linkblog Tue, 09 Nov 2010 20:33:22 +0000 http://www.mattvsworld.com/blog/?p=436#comment-780 [...] install the latest autoconf and automake on mac os 10.6 — matt vs world I figured as long as I was updating autoconf i’d update automake, m4, and libtool as well. Here’s the quick script (as always, I assume you prefer the installation prefix /usr/local as i do). It’s nothing too fancy, but the sequence of the installs is important: (tags: autoconf osx libtool m4 automate) [...] [...] install the latest autoconf and automake on mac os 10.6 — matt vs world I figured as long as I was updating autoconf i’d update automake, m4, and libtool as well. Here’s the quick script (as always, I assume you prefer the installation prefix /usr/local as i do). It’s nothing too fancy, but the sequence of the installs is important: (tags: autoconf osx libtool m4 automate) [...]

]]> By: matt http://www.mattvsworld.com/blog/2010/02/install-the-latest-autoconf-and-automake-on-mac-os-10-6/comment-page-1/#comment-298 matt Mon, 10 May 2010 21:03:05 +0000 http://www.mattvsworld.com/blog/?p=436#comment-298 Thanks for the nice comment! I fixed the script for that "cd" bug you mentioned. Cheers! Thanks for the nice comment! I fixed the script for that “cd” bug you mentioned. Cheers!

]]> By: Hugo http://www.mattvsworld.com/blog/2010/02/install-the-latest-autoconf-and-automake-on-mac-os-10-6/comment-page-1/#comment-278 Hugo Thu, 06 May 2010 00:56:20 +0000 http://www.mattvsworld.com/blog/?p=436#comment-278 Thanks for the summary, it helped. http://www.mattvsworld.com/blog/2010/02/install-the-latest-autoconf-and-automake-on-mac-os-10-6/ I was trying to do autoconf on latest flam3 (from Google Code) http://code.google.com/p/flam3/source/checkout But this failed, because the script was created with a newer version 2.63 than the default 'autoconf' on Snow Leopard. So I upgraded to 2.65 with your help. For the sake of other readers... Just a small correction, there was an error in the line: "cd autoconf-2.65.tar.gz" it SHOULD read: "cd autoconf-2.65" -- My Snow Leopard 10.6.3 path was "/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin". Since I already had '/usr/local' *after* the normal system path loading "autoconf" then I needed something different because I did not want to change the order of everything, just these tools. I created an 'overrideOrder' directory in "/usr/local". Like this: "cd /usr/local" "sudo mkdir overrideOrder" then I did "sudo edit /etc/paths" (TextWrangler) and put the 'bin' directory of that override directory *before* the other paths, like this: /usr/local/overrideOrder/bin /usr/bin /bin /usr/sbin /sbin /usr/local/bin (note that the X11 path in the $PATH variable mentioned at the top comes from '/etc/paths.d/' which is searched *after* the rest of these directories. You can add text files with other paths there. See it like this: 'open /etc/paths.d/' ) Then I made a new directory on the Desktop, 'cd' to it and followed your instructions edited/updated to latest stable versions and prefixed to the override directory (note that it's *not* 'bin' here): curl -O http://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.14.tar.gz tar -xzvf m4-1.4.14.tar.gz cd m4-1.4.14 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/overrideOrder make sudo make install cd .. curl -O http://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.65.tar.gz tar -xzvf autoconf-2.65.tar.gz cd autoconf-2.65 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/overrideOrder make sudo make install cd .. # here you might want to restart your terminal session, to ensure the new autoconf is picked up and used in the rest of the script curl -O http://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.11.1.tar.gz tar xzvf automake-1.11.1.tar.gz cd automake-1.11.1 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/overrideOrder make sudo make install cd .. curl -O http://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.2.6b.tar.gz tar xzvf libtool-2.2.6b.tar.gz cd libtool-2.2.6b ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/overrideOrder make sudo make install That upgraded the tools and worked as intended. Verify by typing "autoconf --version". Thanks again! Thanks for the summary, it helped.
http://www.mattvsworld.com/blog/2010/02/install-the-latest-autoconf-and-automake-on-mac-os-10-6/

I was trying to do autoconf on latest flam3 (from Google Code)
http://code.google.com/p/flam3/source/checkout

But this failed, because the script was created with a newer version 2.63 than the default ‘autoconf’ on Snow Leopard. So I upgraded to 2.65 with your help.

For the sake of other readers…

Just a small correction, there was an error in the line:
“cd autoconf-2.65.tar.gz”

it SHOULD read:
“cd autoconf-2.65″
–
My Snow Leopard 10.6.3 path was “/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin”.

Since I already had ‘/usr/local’ *after* the normal system path loading “autoconf” then I needed something different because I did not want to change the order of everything, just these tools. I created an ‘overrideOrder’ directory in “/usr/local”.
Like this:
“cd /usr/local”
“sudo mkdir overrideOrder”

then I did “sudo edit /etc/paths” (TextWrangler) and put the ‘bin’ directory of that override directory *before* the other paths, like this:
/usr/local/overrideOrder/bin
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin
/usr/local/bin

(note that the X11 path in the $PATH variable mentioned at the top comes from ‘/etc/paths.d/’ which is searched *after* the rest of these directories. You can add text files with other paths there. See it like this: ‘open /etc/paths.d/’ )

Then I made a new directory on the Desktop, ‘cd’ to it and followed your instructions edited/updated to latest stable versions and prefixed to the override directory (note that it’s *not* ‘bin’ here):

curl -O http://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.14.tar.gz
tar -xzvf m4-1.4.14.tar.gz
cd m4-1.4.14
./configure –prefix=/usr/local/overrideOrder
make
sudo make install
cd ..
curl -O http://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.65.tar.gz
tar -xzvf autoconf-2.65.tar.gz
cd autoconf-2.65
./configure –prefix=/usr/local/overrideOrder
make
sudo make install
cd ..
# here you might want to restart your terminal session, to ensure the new autoconf is picked up and used in the rest of the script
curl -O http://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.11.1.tar.gz
tar xzvf automake-1.11.1.tar.gz
cd automake-1.11.1
./configure –prefix=/usr/local/overrideOrder
make
sudo make install
cd ..
curl -O http://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.2.6b.tar.gz
tar xzvf libtool-2.2.6b.tar.gz
cd libtool-2.2.6b
./configure –prefix=/usr/local/overrideOrder
make
sudo make install

That upgraded the tools and worked as intended. Verify by typing “autoconf –version”.

Thanks again!

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