[zeromq-dev] Autoconf version requirements

[Pieter Hintjens]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Martin Lucina <mato at kotelna.sk> wrote:

> Debian stable has 2.61 (see
> http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=autoconf), 0MQ requires 2.61.
>
> No problem here as far as I can see.

Then it must have been an older Debian.  Nonetheless it impossible to
continue and we had to switch to ... ugh... RedHat.

> Also, autoconf is only required when building from Git.

Which means at least the Java bindings and presumably also others.

I recall Steve asking the same question about autoconf some time ago:
do we really need 2.61?  Anything that raises the barrier on building
0MQ is a problem.

-
Pieter