On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Simon Matter wrote: > I have a simple question regarding the change to the support for automake > 1.7 and autoconf 2.57. Older RedHat releases like 7.2, 7.3 are using > automake 1.4 and autoconf 2.13. cyrus-imapd-2.2.2-BETA and > cyrus-sasl-2.1.16-BETA don't like those older autoconf/automake. My > question is, is this expected behaviour or should it be possible to use > the old autoconf/make tools?
It is not possible to continue to use the old tools, since they require acconfig.h, which is now generated from the configure.in file itself. > I even don't remember why I call autoconf in > the cyrus-imapd build process but I'm sure there was a reason I used to > call it. Upgrading autoconf/automake is not an option here, so is there > another way to do it or do I usually not nees to run automake/autoconf on > the released tarballs to build on Linux. You'd need to run it if you change something in the configure script, otherwise you shouldn't need to run it. -Rob -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456 Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper
