Quote Originally Posted by abligh View Post
Whilst having 2 automake's on your system isn't generally a good thing, and you have probably fixed the immediate problem, for future reference you can probably do (under bash, I don't know csh):
AUTOMAKE=/path/to/automake AUTOCONF=/path/to/autoconf AUTORECONF=/path/to/autoreconf (etc.) ./configure <options>

I know the FreeBSD guys use this.

Alex
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll admit that before this particular effort, I had never even consciously encountered Automake and its kin before. There was make, and for a while there was imake, and then I took a long break from installing anything but Linux RPMs.