[asterisk-dev] 1.4svn bootstrap.sh fails with autoconf 2.59

[Patrick]

On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 18:33 -0600, Anthony Lamantia wrote:
> the error you are getting is more or less caused by these three lines
> in acinclude.m4
> 
>      _AC_PATH_PROG_FEATURE_CHECK(SED, [sed gsed],
>         [_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH([ac_path_SED], [ac_cv_path_SED],
>                 ["$ac_path_SED" -f conftest.sed])])])
> 
> you will either need to remove them or upgrade your version of
> autoconf

Thanks Anthony. I commented this section out in acinclude.m4
and ./bootstrap.sh and ./configure seem to work.

Regards,
Patrick


> On 2/7/07, Patrick <asterisk-list at puzzled.xs4all.nl> wrote:
>         On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 17:30 -0600, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: 
>         > Patrick wrote:
>         > > Does anyone with knowledge of the build system have a
>         suggestion how to
>         > > fix this issue? My auto* voodoo is pretty non-existent so
>         I appreciate
>         > > any feedback.
>         >
>         > Most of us that work on the configure script use autoconf
>         2.60, so we
>         > don't ever see this stuff. Those macros appear to be
>         autoconf-2.60
>         > specific, so I guess the answer to your question is no,
>         autoconf 2.59
>         > will not work.
>         
>         Thanks for the feedback Kevin.
>         
>         For anyone else bumping into this issue while trying to add
>         new apps to
>         the build system: it was suggested that you either create the
>         new
>         configure with ./bootstrap.sh on a box that does have autoconf
>         2.60 (or
>         newer I guess) and then build Asterisk on the target box using
>         the new
>         configure file or you can add the logic to build the new apps
>         statically
>         to the Makefile. Hope I got it right :)
>         
>         Regards,
>         Patrick
>         
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