[asterisk-dev] autoconf version requirement increase

[Corey Farrell]

Testing is always appreciated but this is unlikely to affect your 
ability to test patches from your CentOS 6 environment.  It's up to the 
author of a patch to include updated 'configure' script when needed.  
For example when you wrote the patch for the beanstalkd CDR engine you 
added detection of the beanstalk client to the configure.ac script, then 
you ran ./bootstap.sh' to regenerate configure.  Since you ran 
bootstrap.sh nobody else has to and your patch can be tested on a system 
that doesn't even have autoconf (or has an ancient version).

On Nov 1, 2017 2:08 AM, "Nir Simionovich" <nir.simionovich at gmail.com 
<mailto:nir.simionovich at gmail.com>> wrote:

    Hi Corey,

       Our production environment is based on CentOS 6.9 and we're
    slowly migrating to 7.X
    I would be happy to check out your patches inside our testing facility.


    On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 10:52 PM Corey Farrell <git at cfware.com
    <mailto:git at cfware.com>> wrote:

        Hello all,

        autoconf is required to run ./bootstrap.sh after changing
        configure.ac <http://configure.ac>
        or *.m4 in any folder of the Asterisk source tree (including
        menuselect
        and third-party folders).  Currently we require 2.60, I'm
        working on a
        patch that will require 2.64.  Note autoconf is not required to run
        './configure', it is only needed to run ./bootstrap.sh.

        Does anyone work on these files from a distribution which cannot
        install
        autoconf-2.69?  Although the changes I'm working on only require
        autoconf 2.64 I see no reason to hold back at this point.
        Version 2.69
        is from 2012 and is the latest version.  As far as I know CentOS
        6 is
        the only major currently supported distribution which has autoconf <
        2.64, all others provide 2.69.  Requiring 2.69 would be one less
        thing
        to worry about when working on configure scripts, especially since I
        don't have access to test any lower version.

        -Corey


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