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

[Tony Mountifield]

In article <200711211019.42638.simon.perreault at viagenie.ca>,
Simon Perreault <simon.perreault at viagenie.ca> wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 November 2007 09:57:54 Patrick wrote:
> > Similarly I really don't understand why Asterisk 1.4 requires autoconf
> > 2.60 when that is not supported by the distros mentioned above. One
> > would think this is taken into account. Funny thing is that after
> > ripping out some parts, bootstrap.sh works fine on CentOS 5 with
> > autoconf 2.59. So why hardcoding 2.60? But I digress.
> 
> It's because of AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. It's only available starting with 
> 2.60.

Is that an essential feature to use, or could whatever it is used for be
achieved in some more compatible way?

Cheers
Tony

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