easy way to install older automake-1.9?

[Jonathan Underwood]

On 15/12/2007, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
>   i'm trying to build a software package that specifically requests
> automake-1.9, when my f8 system is already up to 1.10.  i can hack the
> Makefile, but is there a relatively painless way to simultaneously
> install automake-1.9 on this system just to get around this for the
> time being?  it's not my preferred way to deal with the problem, but
> i'm willing to do it as a temporary workaround.  thanks.

Presumably you could take the RPM spec file for eg. automake17 and
adjust that for automake-1.9 relatively painlessly. I am actually
surprised there is automake18 and automake19 in the repos.