[Freeswitch-users] Newbie: Autoconf error when installing Freeswitch on Mac OS

[Michael Jerris]

Do you have autoconf installed on your system and in your path and is  
it 2.59 or later?

Mike

On Oct 6, 2008, at 12:41 AM, John Lum-Wah wrote:

> Hi, I'm new to Freeswitch. I tried installing Freeswitch using the
> commands from the wiki
>
>
> svn checkout http://svn.freeswitch.org/svn/freeswitch/trunk freeswitch
>
> 1) su root   % use sudo passwd root to reset the root password if you
> don't know the password
>      <password>
> 2) cd /usr/local
> 3) mkdir src  % create /usr/local/src directory
> 4) cd src
>
> svn checkout http://svn.freeswitch.org/svn/freeswitch/trunk freeswitch
>
> 5) cd freeswitch
>
>  ./bootstrap.sh
>
> I still get the error that autoconf 2.59 or above is needed. I even
> tried the command
>
> AUTOCONF=/usr/bin/autoconf ./bootstrap.sh
>
>
> However, I think this assume that I have an autoconf file in /usr/bin.
> Needless to say, I still get the error messages that autoconf 2.59 or
> above is required.
>
> Can anyone help me on how to solve this configuration error.
>
> /john