From: Karl O. P. <ko...@me...> - 2009-07-17 01:11:42
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On 07/16/2009 04:24:44 PM, James Yonan wrote: > Matthias Andree wrote: > > James Yonan schrieb: > > > >> 2009.07.16 -- Version 2.1_rc19 > > ... > > > >> * In configure.ac, use datadir instead of datarootdir for > compatibility > >> with <autoconf-2.60. > > > > Dear Jim, > > > > This is backwards. Please don't do that, > > We need to be able to build OpenVPN on older Linux distros, such as > RHEL > 4, that use pre-2.60 versions of autoconf. I don't know about earlier, but autoconf 2.59 comes with # m4_version_prereq(VERSION, [IF-OK], [IF-NOT = FAIL]) # ---------------------------------------------------- # Check this Autoconf version against VERSION. AFICT this can be used to do things one way with older versions and another with newer. m4_version_preqreq(`2.60', datarootdir, datadir) I can't say whether this is actually a better way to do things. Karl <ko...@me...> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein |