[Vm-dev] updating configure.ac

Ben Coman btc at openinworld.com
Mon Oct 17 23:55:25 UTC 2016


On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 5:23 AM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Ben,
>
> On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 12:35 PM, Ben Coman <btc at openinworld.com> wrote:
>>
>> Curiously the configure file committed Mar 13, 2015 was
>>    Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.59.
>> which is 2003 vintage per...
>>    https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/?C=M;O=D
>> or 2008 per...
>>    http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf.git
>> which still seems pretty old.
>>
>> The configure I generated was...
>>    Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69.
>> which even though four years old seems to be the latest release per...
>>    http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf.git
>
>
> What system did you run that on?  I've tried running the autoconf on CentOS 6.5 and it fails.  Hence I've stuck with building on an ancient CentOS 5.4.  I'm happy to update but I need to know what is a functional context.

I ran it on Debian 8 Jessie.  However you can choose you favourite...
  https://distrowatch.com/search.php?pkg=autoconf&relation=similar&pkgver=&distrorange=InAny#pkgsearch

Select a distro, then select "All tracked packages" and <Refresh>.

cheers -ben


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