[OpenAFS-devel] Minimum autoconf version

[Troy Benjegerdes]

On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 02:28:13PM -0400, Ken Hornstein wrote:
> What's the minimum autoconf version that we are using with OpenAFS?
> 
> I ask because in the autoconf glue I did for aklog, I started getting
> complaints because I used AC_ARG_VAR and apparantly some people out
> there (you know who you are) were still using autoconf 2.13, which
> didn't have it.  I'm wondering if we can all agree on what the minimum
> autoconf version is and standardize on it with AC_PREREQ (I'm hoping it
> will be something newer than 2.13).  I also noticed that the configure
> behavior is different for some macros between 2.13 and later versions
> (specifically, the tests done when doing AC_CHECK_HEADERS seems to be
> more comprehensive in later version of autoconf), and that complicated
> things when I was writing the autoconf tests; that's why I'd like to
> get the autoconf version mess straightened out.

FYI, when using Kerberos V5 native tickets, 'user/admin' type principals
don't resolve to 'user.admin' afs ID's, only 'user'.

Using -524 gets the regular krb5 user.admin ticket, so it works.