On 15/12/2007, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.