easy way to install older automake-1.9?

[Todd Zullinger]

Robert P. J. Day 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.

If you patch the source to accept automake-1.10 and verify that things
work well with it, then you could send that upstream.  Many projects
simply haven't updated their autoconf/automake files to recognize and
use automake-1.10 yet.  Unless there is some specific reason the
software doesn't accept 1.10, that's what I would do.

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