[OpenAFS-devel] Autoconf 2.60 requirement

[Dave B]

I would be afraid of this breaking something someplace else (altho, with
these two tools, prolly not.

That said, we use RHEL4 here. For some software requiring newer autoconf
versions than what came with RHEL4, I was able to easily compile
autoconf (and the required m4) from source and install
into /usr/local/ .

For m4 1.4.14, I simply did:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/m4
make && make install

For autoconf 2.65, I then did:

export PATH=/usr/local/m4/bin:$PATH
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/autoconf
make && make install


On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 09:26 -0400, Steven Jenkins wrote:
> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 4:21 AM, Rod Widdowson <rdw@steadingsoftware.com> wrote:
> ...
> > I guess I care personally only in that I wasted a day in an ultimately
> > fruitless attempt to get a recent autoconf/m4 onto my Centos 5 build
> > environment.  If anyone has a proven working recipe they'd like to share
> > (no, the fc srpms don't 'just work') I'd be grateful (like I say, I don't do
> > a lot of this).  I'll even put it into the wiki if people think that would
> > help.
> >
> 
> My suggestion is that someone package autoconf rpms for rhel5/fc
> family and post them on the OpenAFS repo.  In that way, people doing
> development on RH-based systems can do a simply rpm upgrade and be off
> and running.
> 
> Steven
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