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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Autotools version
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 15:30:17 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq4kxiiuba.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH8yC8kwsnnvmo2Oyx-NDN17KGWTgDB+_CwNqsqJQWWe47sf3Q@mail.gmail.com> (Jeffrey Walton's message of "Sun, 29 Dec 2019 17:25:06 -0500")

Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I'm trying to build 2.24.1 from sources. It is failing on an old
> Fedora machine with the error:
>
>     Autoconf 2.59 or higher is required
>
> The irony of Autootools checking version numbers is not lost on me
> considering I only run configure, make and make install.
>
> Would it be possible to drop the Autotools version back to earlier
> versions of Git?


Hmph, because the primary way to use our build procedure is to tweak
with either command line or config.mak file without using configure
at all, and because I don't use ./configure at all, I didn't even
know that our release procedure was adding ./configure to the tarball.

I wonder if it would help for me to stop shipping the file so that
anybody who wants to use 'configure' can do so using their own
version of autoconf?  That way, there won't be an issue like this
that may come from autoconf & autotools versions, I guess.

I dunno.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-29 23:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-29 22:25 Autotools version Jeffrey Walton
2019-12-29 23:30 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2019-12-29 23:54   ` Eric Sunshine

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