thanks, but i build CB with
./configure --enable-contrib --prefix=/usr
make
make install
Yes, but the gentoo automake-wrapper (/usr/bin/automake is linked to it) looks whether WANT_AUTOMAKE is defined correctly and then uses the specified version. bootstrap defines WANT_AUTOMAKE=1.7, that's why automake-1.7 is used
But since there's a problem with automake < 1.9, it uses the old v7 tar format (filenames limited to 99 characters), I added an option to use a newer tar format, but this option isn't availabe in automake < 1.9 and causes this error
automake doesn't care whether you use
make dist because it doesn't know. It wants to set up everything like it's defined
I'll look whether there's a work around.