easy way to install older automake-1.9?

[Jonathan Underwood]

On 15/12/2007, Jonathan Underwood <jonathan.underwood at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 15/12/2007, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> >
> >   i'm trying to build a software package that specifically requests
> > automake-1.9, when my f8 system is already up to 1.10.  i can hack the
> > Makefile, but is there a relatively painless way to simultaneously
> > install automake-1.9 on this system just to get around this for the
> > time being?  it's not my preferred way to deal with the problem, but
> > i'm willing to do it as a temporary workaround.  thanks.
>
> Presumably you could take the RPM spec file for eg. automake17 and
> adjust that for automake-1.9 relatively painlessly. I am actually
> surprised there is automake18 and automake19 in the repos.

s/is/isn't/