Re: [naviserver-devel] Naviserver needs autoconf 2.69

[Gustaf N. <ne...@wu...>]

Dear Andrew,

autoconf is only needed for developers working directly on the source 
repository (mercurial).
The .tar release from bitbucket of 4.99.6 comes with a generated 
"configure" script and
has no such dependency.

Autoconf 2.69 is not really brand-new, it was released more than two 
years ago,
it is strange, that it has not made it yet to 12.04, but maybe the 
ubuntu people
don't want the change anything in the build system. I've on all my 
development
systems 2.69 installed. The AC_PREREQ is a safety measure, since everything
is tested with this release. Autoconf is a moving target, where 2.69 is 
in many
details more picky.

all the best
-gustaf

Am 19.08.14 00:07, schrieb Andrew Piskorski:
> I pulled a copy of the Naviserver 4.99.6 source release from BitBucket
> with Mercurial.  But running ./autogen.sh tells me:
>
>    configure.ac:36: error: Autoconf version 2.69 or higher is required
>
> I'm on Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS, and its newest (normally) available
> autoconf appears to be version 2.68 in the autoconf2.50 package.
> So I installed the autoconf backport here, which gives me 2.69 and
> fixes things on Linux:
>
>    https://launchpad.net/~costamagnagianfranco/+archive/ubuntu/autoconf
>
> But does Naviserver really need such a specific version of autoconf?
> Maybe it would be best to just check the output configure file into
> the version control system?
>


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