Document autotools breakage more exactly.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 6222ff54..78aaa0a6 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -24,11 +24,19 @@ Python 2.6             -> most of the test and profiling tools are in Python
        		       	  and the 'json' module is needed for tests
 
 For building from SVN, the following are necessary:
-autoconf 2.61 or later
-automake 1.10 or later
-libtool
+autoconf 2.61-2.63
+automake 1.10
+libtool 2.26 or later
 Python			-> code is generated from python scripts
 
+Note: As of November 2009, some recent versions of autotools are buggy
+in a way that breaks the gpsd build (breakage has been observed with
+autoconf-2.64 + automake 1.11 + libtool-2.26).  Symptoms range from
+spuruious creation of a shared library named libgps-0.0.0 to complete
+failure of autogen.sh.  If this happens to you, use ./autogen.h
+--disable-shared or downgrade to less broken versions. The combination
+of autoconf-2.63 + automake 1.10.2 + libtool-2.26 is known to work.
+
 For working with DBUS, you'll need the DBUS development
 headers and libraries installed.  Under Debian/Ubuntu these
 are the packages ibdbus-1-dev and libdbus-glib-1-dev.
@@ -109,11 +117,6 @@ To build from source, run ./autogen.sh (or sh autogen.sh if the
 script does not have execute permission).  Mac OS X users may
 need to do "./autogen.sh --x-includes=/usr/X11R6/include"
 
-Note: As of November 2009, some versions of libtool are buggy in a
-way that breaks the gpsd build.  Symptoms range from spuruious
-creation of a shared library named libgps-0.0.0 to complete failure
-of autogen.sh.  If this happens to you, use ./autogen.h --disable-shared.
-
 Note: if you are going to use the RTCM-104 support, you should compile
 with gcc4; if you don't have it installed as your default 
 compiler, do this by specifying CC=gcc4 before the autogen.sh