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Re: autoconf AC_PREREQ ?


On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 1:29 AM, Yann E. MORIN
<yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> wrote:
> There are configure.in fragments throughout the glibc-2.8 tree. Those
> fragments get parsed with 'autoconf', called from the glibc Makefiles.
> Unfortunately, on some distributions (Debian is one), 'autoconf' is a
> wrapper script that calls either autoconf2.13 or autoconf2.50, based on
> some heuristics (2). And those heuristics decide to run autoconf2.13.

Why are you regenerating the configure scripts? Have you modified them?

A CVS checkout will almost always have the wrong timestamp for the
configure.in files, therefore you should "touch" all the configure
scripts after checkout. This will avoid their regeneration.

The solution is to your problem is to set the environment variable
AUTOCONF to the correct autoconf binary e.g. export
AUTOCONF=autoconf2.50.

There is no need to guess, INSTALL says you must use autoconf2.53 or newer.

Cheers,
Carlos.


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