[zeromq-dev] Autoconf version requirements

[Martin Lucina]

ph at imatix.com said:
> 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.

Run 'make dist' on a new enough machine and use the resulting tarball.
Problem solved.

> > 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.

To be honest, autoconf 2.59 was released in *2003*. So I'm not inclined to
support that; I don't even have a distribution here that uses it, *and*
(I repeat myself) normal users should be using release tarballs/tarballs
made from "make dist".

FWIW autoconf 2.61 was released in 2006 so it's not new by any definition.

-mato