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Topic: The installed version of autoconf does not work.

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followed the steps to install from git
+added the openwrt dirs to PATH
ie /home/fred0/work/openwrt/build_dir/host:/home/fred0/work/openwrt/staging_dir/host/bin

error
Live child 0x55c29f2ab2f0 (/home/fred0/work/openwrt/build_dir/host/automake-1.15/.configured) PID 10078
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking build system type... x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for perl... /usr/bin/env perl
checking for tex... tex
checking for yacc... yacc
checking for lex... lex
checking whether autoconf is installed... yes
checking whether autoconf works... no
configure: error: The installed version of autoconf does not work.
    Please check config.log for error messages before this one.
Reaping losing child 0x55c29f2ab2f0 PID 10078
Makefile:50: recipe for target '/home/fred0/work/openwrt/build_dir/host/automake-1.15/.configured' failed
make[3]: *** [/home/fred0/work/openwrt/build_dir/host/automake-1.15/.configured] Error 1
Removing child 0x55c29f2ab2f0 PID 10078 from chain.
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/fred0/work/openwrt/tools/automake'
Reaping losing child 0x55573cbde120 PID 9734
tools/Makefile:134: recipe for target 'tools/automake/compile' failed
make[2]: *** [tools/automake/compile] Error 2
Removing child 0x55573cbde120 PID 9734 from chain.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/fred0/work/openwrt'
Reaping losing child 0x55b8c60a7020 PID 8400
tools/Makefile:133: recipe for target '/home/fred0/work/openwrt/staging_dir/target-mipsel_mips32_musl-1.1.16/stamp/.tools_install_yynyyynynynyyyyyyynyyynyyyyyyyyynyyyyynnyynynnyyynnnyy' failed
make[1]: *** [/home/fred0/work/openwrt/staging_dir/target-mipsel_mips32_musl-1.1.16/stamp/.tools_install_yynyyynynynyyyyyyynyyynyyyyyyyyynyyyyynnyynynnyyynnnyy] Error 2
Removing child 0x55b8c60a7020 PID 8400 from chain.
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/fred0/work/openwrt'
Reaping losing child 0x55b074b23980 PID 8393
/home/fred0/work/openwrt/include/toplevel.mk:192: recipe for target 'world' failed
make: *** [world] Error 2
Removing child 0x55b074b23980 PID 8393 from chain.

openwrt/build_dir/host/
  autoconf-2.69
  automake-1.15
  ccache-3.3.2
  flock
  m4-1.4.17
  patch-2.7.5
  pkg-config-0.29.1
  sed-4.2.2
  stamp
  tar-1.28
xz-5.2.2

this is on fedora 25

as far as i can work out autoconf 2.69 IS the latest, yet this is still complaining

anyone know whats wrong?

Can you post the config.log file?

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