RE: [Cppunit-devel] autoconf version

[Bastiaan B. <bas...@li...>]

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Volker Boerchers [mailto:boe...@we...]
> Verzonden: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 10:53 AM
> Aan: cpp...@li...
> Onderwerp: [Cppunit-devel] autoconf version
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I tried to build the recent CVS version of cppunit and ran into some
> problems due to the autoconf version requirement in autogen.sh
> (btw. autogen is not mentioned in the docs)
> 
>   $ ./autogen.sh 
>   Putting files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, `config'.
>   FATAL ERROR: Autoconf version 2.50 or higher is required 
> for this script
>   automake: configure.in: installing `config/install-sh'
>   automake: configure.in: installing `config/mkinstalldirs'
>   automake: configure.in: installing `config/missing'
>   configure.in: 41: required file `config/config.h.in' not found
>   FATAL ERROR: Autoconf version 2.50 or higher is required 
> for this script
>   $ autoconf --version
>   Autoconf version 2.13
> 
> Then i searched for a newer version but on
>   http://sources.redhat.com/autoconf/
> it's stated that the current version of Autoconf actually is 2.13.
> 
> Any clue? I guess you're using some development version of
> autoconf. If you need some special macro it's probably better to

It is NOT a development version, they simply do not keep all their webpages
up to date. See 
http://www.gnu.org/directory/autoconf.html for confirmation. Since it
contains many improvements over 2.13, upgrading to it is probably well worth
the effort.  

> include it into cppunit for some time until the newer autoconf has
> made it into at least some linux distributions (just for convenience
> :-).

Well, I'm lazy, uhm I mean "don't have much time". So for convenience of the
project I prefer to settle for one autoconf version: saves us hunting
problems that turn out to be related to differences
between autoconf versions. 
The AC_CREATE_PREFIX_CONFIG_H originally contained a workaround for the lack
of AS_DIRNAME in 2.13, but it turned out to be broken. I did not want to
waste more time on compatiblity with an old autoconf version, especially
because it inconveniences only such a small group of people and not regular
CppUnit users.   

Sorry,

Bastiaan

PS. If you need a tar ball that includes aclocal.m4, etc., to get started,
just let me know.


> 
> Curious about the "new" cppunit...
> 
> Volker
> -- 
> Volker Boerchers, boe...@we...
> 
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