On Cygwin, I have:

autoconf 2.59
libtool 1.5
automake 1.7.9

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Michael Gogins
gogins at pipeline period com
Irreducible Productions
CsoundVST, an extended version of Csound for programming music and sound
Available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/csound/
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John D. Ramsdell" 
To: "Csound Developers Discussion List" 
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 4:41 PM
Subject: [CSOUND-DEV:3942] Re: How to configure


> John,
> 
> I so happy to hear you're trying the GBS version of Csound, but
> remember, if the GBS version of Csound fails you for any reason, you
> should be able to build with the original makefiles.  Just cd into the
> csound directory and you should find Makefile.lnx.  This should allow
> you to build a system as you have always done.  If this is broken,
> let's fix it soon.  One of the reasons I made sure the original
> makefiles continued to work is because of questions with Debian
> systems.
> 
> But back to the GBS version.  I have been led to believe that Debian
> provides a modern version of autoconf, but an old version of
> automake.  Please send the version of autoconf, automake, and libtoolize
> that is available on your machine.  On RH9, the versions are:
> 
> $ autoconf --version
> -autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.57
> Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.
>  
> Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There
> is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
> PURPOSE.
> $ automake --version
> automake (GNU automake) 1.6.3
> Written by Tom Tromey .
>  
> Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There
> is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
> PURPOSE.
> $ libtoolize --version
> libtoolize (GNU libtool) 1.4.3
> $
> 
> In any event, you should be able to download and build
> csound-4.23f09gbs.1.tar.gz from the wxcsound package and build csound
> on Debian without worrying about the GNU build system tools version
> numbers. 
> 
> Remember to do a "cvs up -d" soon.
> 
> John
>

"Michael Gogins"  writes:

> On Cygwin, I have:
> 
> autoconf 2.59
> libtool 1.5
> automake 1.7.9

Clearly, Cygwin is currently the best platform for building a
distribution without having to update the platform's GNU build system
tools.

John