Commit 7afccf7a authored by Yang Tse's avatar Yang Tse
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buildconf: warn about autoconf 2.67 and 2.68 generating bad/unusable scripts

parent 4a57bf6d

buildconf

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@@ -89,7 +89,9 @@ if test ! -f configure.ac || 
fi



#--------------------------------------------------------------------------

# autoconf 2.57 or newer

# autoconf 2.57 or newer. Unpatched version 2.67 does not generate proper

# configure script. Unpatched version 2.68 is simply unusable, we should

# disallow 2.68 usage.

#

need_autoconf="2.57"

ac_version=`${AUTOCONF:-autoconf} --version 2>/dev/null|head -n 1| sed -e 's/^[^0-9]*//' -e 's/[a-z]* *$//'`
@@ -108,7 +110,15 @@ if test "$1" = "2" -a "$2" -lt "57" || test "$1" -lt "2"; then 
  exit 1

fi



if test "$1" = "2" -a "$2" -eq "67"; then

  echo "buildconf: autoconf version $ac_version (BAD)"

  echo "            Unpatched version generates broken configure script."

elif test "$1" = "2" -a "$2" -eq "68"; then

  echo "buildconf: autoconf version $ac_version (BAD)"

  echo "            Unpatched version generates unusable configure script."

else

  echo "buildconf: autoconf version $ac_version (ok)"

fi



am4te_version=`${AUTOM4TE:-autom4te} --version 2>/dev/null|head -n 1| sed -e 's/autom4te\(.*\)/\1/' -e 's/^[^0-9]*//' -e 's/[a-z]* *$//'`

if test -z "$am4te_version"; then