[asterisk-dev] [asterisk-commits] rizzo: trunk r89452 - in /trunk: acinclude.m4 configure configure.ac

[Paul Hewlett]

On Wednesday 21 November 2007 00:57:25 Tony Mountifield wrote:
> In article <200711201328.34529.simon.perreault at viagenie.ca>,
>
> Simon Perreault <simon.perreault at viagenie.ca> wrote:
> > What's wrong with autoconf >= 2.60? That's the official guideline,
> > hardcoded into configure.ac. Pretty much any distribution nowadays comes
> > with it.
>
> RHEL 4.x and therefore CentOS 4.x are still on autoconf 2.59.
>
> In fact, I've just checked, and even RHEL 5 and CentOS 5 are still on 2.59.
>
> I would think that covers an awful lot of Asterisk systems! Discontinuing
> support for standard RH-based distributions would be rather cavalier.
>
> Cheers
> Tony

Gentoo has a package called autoconf-wrapper which is derived from a perl 
script from Mandrake - this is designed to call the correct autoconf ...

just 2cents

Paul

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