"Linking" to different versions of automake/autoconf tools - autoconf

I am currently working on a machine to which I do not have sudo privileges. I am trying to build a library which requires Autoconf and Automake versions higher than the currently installed versions. I successfully installed autoconf in my home directory. However, the version of automake I am installing ALSO requires an autoconf version higher than the currently installed version.
My question:
If possible, how do you tell configure files where to find autoconf/automake if they are installed in non-default locations?
Thank you

You don't really need to tell them anything. Just put the path to the overriding autoconf/automake before the system autoconf/automake path in PATH and it should work.

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Which packages should I install on Cygwin to use simpleScalar - Alpha configuration?

I already installed the following packages version 4.3-1, gcc-core version 11.3.0-1, gcc-g++ version 11.3.0-1. However, when I run the make command after running the make config-alpha command, I get several errors on the screen. I already tried to install other versions of these packages but I still get the same results.errors that I got
Which other additional package should I install?
Assuming that SimpleScalar is the one here:
https://www.es.ele.tue.nl/~yhe/aca/Simplescalar_Download.html
the packaging is ancient (gcc gcc-2.7.2.3) and its manually crafted configure is not considering any recent platforms.
It seems very hard to adjust to a Cygwin build and you can not use the GCC Cygwin compiler for a cross build of a Alpha platform

missing libmpfr.so.6 when using a cross-compiler

I am using Ubuntu 18.04
I built a mips cross-compiler using buildroot, but when I tried to test whether it would work,I got this message
/home/daisy/repos/repo/buildroot/output/host/bin/../libexec/gcc/mipsel-buildroot-linux-uclibc/9.3.0/cc1: error while loading shared libraries: libmpfr.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I searched for solutions , one of which said this:
sudo pacman -S mpfr
Well , my Linux isn't archlinux, this didn't work for me.
somebody please tells me how to deal with it.
The above suggestions of installing libmpfr on your host system are wrong. Buildroot is supposed to have build libmpfr, it should be present in host/lib, and picked up by the cross-compiler by virtue of it having a proper RPATH. If it doesn't work, we need to figure out why, but the correct thing is not to install libmpfr on your host system.
In Ubuntu, apt command (Advanced Packaging Tool) is used for performing such functions as installation of new software packages, upgrade of existing software packages, updating of the package list index, and even upgrading the entire Ubuntu system.
Try this command :-
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install libmpfr6
This will install shared libraries: libmpfr.so.6 to your Ubuntu system.
Hope It Helps !

how to upgrade develop toolset on CentOS6.3 without the Internet?

Background: My CentOS have no access to the Internet and upgrading OS isn't permitted, but I can upload files to it. I want to use YCM to complete my c++ code.
I intended to install YCM on centos6.3 which have a clang2.8, but YCM needs libcalng3.9. So I have to upgrade my clang and llvm. Then I follow this tutorail to install llvm with source code, however I found that gcc cmake and many other fundamental tools also must be upgraded, or many errors would occur.
In order to install new tool chain, I have downloaded CentOS7.iso and use it as a local yum repo to upgrade development toolset. I don't know whether this way is proper, and it falt into loop dependence. So my questions are below.
Can install YCM without upgrade my development toolset?
Is there an easy/hard way to upgrade my development toolset?
What is the reason that I can't install software on CentOS6.3 using CentOS7.4?
You may use scientific linux's devtoolset packages from http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/sclo/x86_64/rh/devtoolset-7/
Use rpm or yum to install devtoolset-7 and its dependecies. New binaries will be installed into /opt/rh/devtoolset-7/root/usr/bin. To make use of them you must add the path to the PATH environment variable.
The packages contain prebuilt binaries which require specific versions of shared librarirs, which are not available on mismatched version of centos.

Fedora - Reinstalling GMP with C++ support

I'm trying to install a library that uses gmp and am running the ./configure on it.
So far, I've gotten past several snags, such as requiring gcc, g++, and m4 by using:
yum install gcc
yum install gcc-g++
yum install m4
Now I'm getting this error:
checking for the GMP library version 4.1.3 or above... no
configure: error: Cannot find GMP version 4.1.3 or higher.
GMP is the GNU Multi-Precision library:
see http://www.swox.com/gmp/ for more information.
When compiling the GMP library, do not forget to enable the C++ interface:
add --enable-cxx to the configuration options.
As such, I tried both installing and updating gmp using yum:
yum install gmp
yum update gmp
Install tells me it's already installed and is v. 5.1.2
Updating says there's nothing to update.
I went to the gmp site and it is currently v. 6.0.0
I downloaded it and ran configure (using --enable-cxx), make, and make install.
Yet, nothing has changed. It still says I have v. 5.1.2 and the configure for the library still says it can't find 4.1.3 and above / try enabling c++.
The gmp files (such as gmp.h) are being placed in /usr/local/lib and /include
I've been at this for hours without any progress. I'm rather new to linux so I imagine there's something I just don't know about.
Am I not installing 6.0.0 correctly to overwrite the already installed one?
Or is there a way to reinstall the original with the c++ option?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
dnf install gmp-devel resolved this for me on rhel
When you manually install something, as you have, it doesn't get installed in the normal /usr/lib directory and therefore it doesn't overwrite it. This is a good thing. In general, you shouldn't mess with files installed by the package manager. (Except in the case that they are config files that are meant to be edited.)
When you install manually, it is installed to /usr/local/lib. Fortunately, GCC and other compilers don't care which directory something is installed in, they will find it (when it's in standard places like /usr/* or /usr/local/*).
Just include the C++ header and add the correct -l library flag.
I figured it out.
Under the --help section of the ./configure for the library I was trying to install, there was actually a feature just for this:
--with-gmp-include=DIR
--with-gmp-lib=DIR
Using these, I was able to get it to install.
Thanks for the help.
I think I was too focused on trying to update the system install of gmp.

Installing Qt on linux, cannot find -lGL

I'm having a hard time trying to install Qt on linux. I downloaded the .run file on the website and installed Qt. However, when I try to compile the default Hello World project using Qtcreator, I get the following :
error cannot find -lGL
I was able to solve the problem by issuing the command :
sudo apt-get install libqt4-dev
But, I'm not satisfied with the solution as I want to use Qt5 and the name of the lib I downloaded implies version 4. Can someone explain what is going on and tell me if my solution is correct? If not, what should I do to get a working Qt on Linux.
Additional question
The correct answer, as provided by LtWorf, was to install libgl-dev. For future problems of this sort, can someone tell me how I should have guessed that I had to download this particular library? And why are there some libs with -dev at the end? What do they provide?
Well it is trying to link with libgl and doesn't find it. You should install libgl-dev.
-l is a linker option, it tells the linker to use a certain library.
For example you can have -lmagic meaning that you want to use libmagic.
Normally all libraries are called libsomething, and on debian you will find 3 packages called:
libsomething
libsomething-dbg
libsomething-dev
The 1st one is the library, the second one is the library compiled with the debug symbols, so you can make sense of stacktraces more easily, and the final one is the development package, it contains the .h files so you can link to the library.
sudo apt-get install libgl-dev
On Fedora 17, I did:
sudo yum install mesa-libGL-devel
Do you have libgl-dev installed? If not install it and it should work.
Those other posters are correct, but on some systems, the lib to install is named differently. I just dealt with a 32bit Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS system, and libgl-dev was not available.
Instead, I needed to install the libgl1-mesa-dev package via:
sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dev

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