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

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Wednesday 21 November 2007 10:05:51 Tony Mountifield wrote:
> 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?

Isn't the whole point of autoconf to be systems compatible?  We're sort of
putting the horse before the cart if we want the build process to be more
compatible than the end result -- the build of Asterisk.

-- 
Tilghman