Re: [Sshguard-users] Can't compile sshguard 1.2

[Andy B. <abe...@be...>]

On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, David Horn wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Andy Berkvam <abe...@be...> wrote:
>>   I just noticed that sshguard-1.2 was released.  I downloaded it and was
>> unable to compile it.  The error is:
>>
>> aclocal.m4:17: error: this file was generated for autoconf 2.61.
>> You have another version of autoconf.  If you want to use that,
>> you should regenerate the build system entirely.
>
> The error message should probably say something along the lines of:
>
> this file was generated for autoconf 2.61.
> You have another version of autoconf.  It may work, but is not guaranteed to.
> If you have problems, you may need to regenerate the build system entirely.
> To do so, use the procedure documented by the package, typically `autoreconf'.
>
>
> In other words, just run autoreconf (part of the gnu autoconf
> utilities package), then you can re-run your ./configure and make as
> you normally would.   You may want to ensure you have at LEAST version
> 2.61 or higher of autoconf installed (autoconf --version).  If not, it
> is time to upgrade your gnu build tools.
>
>
   That did the trick.  I have GNU autoconf 2.59 so I am guessing that the 
newer format confused it.  I ran autoreconf and then the configure/make 
process worked as expected.

Thank you,

Andy