On Tue, Jun 16, 2026 at 7:45 AM Arrigo Marchiori <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear All, > > a recent commit changed the minimum required version of Autoconf in > the trunk branch, to version 2.73. > > None of the Linux distributions I have at the moment (Ubuntu 22.04, > OpenSUSE Leap 16.0) ship that version of Autoconf. They ship 2.71 and > 2.72 respectively. > > Is this switch to Autoconf 2.73 important? I am afraid we are raising > the entry barrier a bit too much: the cited distro's are still > supported, although not ``bleeding edge''. > > Thank you in advance and best regards, > -- > Arrigo > > What's even worse is that autoconf 2.73 defaults the C compiler to C23, which means you have to set CFLAGS='-std=gnu99' (or similar) when calling "configure", or much of the code won't build (starting with dmake). Regards Damjan
