[asterisk-dev] autoconf wonky?

[Russell Bryant]

Chris Heiser wrote:
> So I'll be the first to admit I have little autoconf foo.  I'm trying to 
> add a simple test for the crypt libraries/flags to configure.ac and 
> generate a new configure script.  Every time I try, I end up with a 
> vastly different configure script, that's about half the size.  If I use 
> the original configure.ac, I get close to the same result.
> 
> I'm using autoconf 2.61 on FreeBSD.  (Which could very well be my problem)

The version that is there is generated from 2.60.  If you use a 
different version, the diff will end up being huge, even though there 
are no real functional differences.

> On a side note, it seems the revision of configure.ac that the configure 
> script is generated from, difffers from the revision of configure.ac 
> included in the 1.4 and 1.4.1 tarballs.  I just found that, somewhat 
> amusing.

What makes you think that?  In fact, the last thing I did before we made 
and released the 1.4.1 tarballs was make a small change to configure.ac 
and regenerate the configure script, so I *know* it is up to date.

-- 
Russell Bryant
Software Engineer
Digium, Inc.