[zeromq-dev] Autoconf version requirements

[Stefan Majer]

Hi,

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Martin Lucina <mato at kotelna.sk> wrote:
> 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.

Ok, valid point. So no need to provide a rhel patch right ?


>> > 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
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Stefan Majer