building fix8 on RHEL9

[Harry Watkins]

I'm trying to build FIX8 on RHEL9

The first error when I run "bootstrap" is autoconf not found. I installed automake (default version appears to be 1.16-2-8.el9 which includes autoconf 2.69.

Then "bootstrap" complains about needing autoconf 2.71. I can't seem to find an rpm for autoconf 2.71.

My question is, how does one build fix8? I don't want to start building all these dependencies from scratch when it just worked on RHEL7 (albeit with an old fix8 release).