Re: [Nmh-workers] Minimum autoconf version required to compile nmh

[Earl Hood]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:02 PM, Earl Hood wrote:
> I have not compiled from source in sometime, but want to
> try out the latest changes, but hit a snag with running
> autogen.sh.
>
> Apparently, CentOS 5.7 version of autoconf is older than
> what the nmh build process says is required.  CentOS 5.7
> provides autoconfig 2.59 but nmh is configured to require
> 2.61 and later.

  [snip]

It appears that the configure.ac is setup to where
it needs macros only defined in 2.60 or later.  I tried
to edit the file to allow for 2.59, but got errors:

configure.ac:764: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_STRUCT_DIRENT_D_TYPE
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1

Macro listed was added in autoconf 2.60.

So it looks like 2.60 (or 2.61) is required and docs/README.developers
needs updating.

--ewh