[Uml-devel] Compiling KDE-CVS

[Jonathan Riddell]

On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 01:30:21PM -0800, Sriram Rajan wrote:
>    I have been trying to install KDE-CVS version of umbrello on my local
>    space ( I do not have admin rights).  I finally got the installation
>    started after installing autoconf 2.54 and automake 1.7  and adding
>    the paths ( preceeding the /usr/bin in the PATH variable , so that
>    these are used instead of the other automake installed on the sytem).
>    However, I receive the following error.

>    *** Creating acinclude.m4
>    *** Creating list of subdirectories
>    *** Creating Makefile.am
>    *** Creating configure.files
>    *** Creating configure.in
>    *** Creating aclocal.m4
>    *** Creating configure
>    aclocal.m4:11280: error: Autoconf version 2.54 or higher is required

>    Kindly advice me if I need to edit some files manually ( with updated
>    paths for my autoconf) instead.

I think I remember having this problem when I was in a similar
situation, I can't remember how I got around it (presumably you've
played with $PATH).  

Since this is a KDE build issue rather than specific to umbrello you
may have better luck asking on kde-devel.

Jonathan Riddell