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On Sat, 9 Mar 2002 22:33:53 -0500 (EST), you wrote:
are there any cons in updating via source automake autconf aclocal vs the rpm of suse....
Besides the obvious that you loose all tracking? And that installing packages might bug you for installing those packages? At least I'd advise you to install these versions to /usr/local (which they'll do by default if not passed a differing --prefix) so that they won't get overwritten by any future update.
i see suse is not up to date on these packages
Which version of SuSE Linux? And trust me, going to current versions of automake and autoconf won't be that easy as quite a few packages need tweeking to play nicely with autoconf 2.5X. Or wait for 8.0, as that'll have autoconf 2.52 and automake 1.5 ;-) Philipp