On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 04:01:27PM +0100, Alarig Le Lay wrote:
On mer. 6 févr. 15:51:56 2019, Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
This depends on version/variant of autoconf tools. Older ones do not support --runstatedir. INSTALL instructions are intended for released tar.gz source, which contains configure generated by proper autoconf version.
AFAIK autoconf in Debian Stable (and newer) is OK.
I used 2.69, it’s the last in the Gentoo tree.
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