Software compilation woes

[Adam Conrad]

José Paulo Matafome Oleiro wrote:
>
> I've got automake 1.9 installed at my system only searching at the
> repositoires. Activate all of them including backports and this should
> appear.

Err, please refrain from recommending that people enable backports
unless they actually need them.  All the automake versions ship in
dapper, in main, no need to enable any extra repositories, and certainly
not backports.

... Adam