C compiler cannot create executables

Wed Apr 4 02:17:22 UTC 2007

On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 10:31 -0700, Amalaye Oyake wrote:
> * My comment on Ubuntu's autotools: autoconf was the latest, but automake
> was old ... this may be a packaging bug on their part, but this is what I
> got when I downloaded the ISO and installed it ... automake --version said
> 1.4. I couldn't believe it ... but it is true. So I removed it and installed
> the latest one from source.

I just checked their servers and found this:
http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/ubuntu/pool/main/a/automake1.10/

i.e. they package automake > 1.4 into packages named automake<version>.

Ralf