Bug #8179
closedconfigure.in requires newer Autoconf than specified by AC_PREREQ
Description
configure.in states
AC_PREREQ(2.62)
but building with Autoconf-2.64 fails due to missing feature. configure in releases are created using Autoconf-2.69 and that worked on trunk. I do not know the absolute minimum requirement, but 2.62 no longer is correct.
Updated by akr (Akira Tanaka) over 11 years ago
2013/3/28 edelsohn (David Edelsohn) dje.gcc@gmail.com:
Bug #8179: configure.in requires newer Autoconf than specified by AC_PREREQ
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8179
configure.in states
AC_PREREQ(2.62)
but building with Autoconf-2.64 fails due to missing feature. configure in releases are created using Autoconf-2.69 and that worked on trunk. I do not know the absolute minimum requirement, but 2.62 no longer is correct.
It seems autoconf 2.63 works on CentOS:
http://c5664.rubyci.org/~chkbuild/ruby-trunk/log/20130327T190301Z.log.html.gz#autoconf-version
http://c5632.rubyci.org/~chkbuild/ruby-trunk/log/20130327T190322Z.log.html.gz#autoconf-version
Tanaka Akira
Updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) over 11 years ago
- Status changed from Open to Feedback
Could you show what failures occur?
Updated by edelsohn (David Edelsohn) over 11 years ago
With Autoconf-2.64 I receive the following error:
configure:1510: error: possibly undefined macro: _m4_text_wrap_word
If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
See the Autoconf documentation.
Autoconf-2.69 works.
Updated by naruse (Yui NARUSE) over 11 years ago
- Status changed from Feedback to Closed
As far as we know, 2.64 and 2.66 are buggy, so we bumped AC_PRE_REQ to 2.67 (Debian Squeeze uses this) at r40034, thanks.