[asterisk-dev] autoconf version requirement increase

[Jean-Denis Girard]

Hi list,

Le 01/11/2017 à 09:08, Matt Fredrickson a écrit :
> Hey Corey,
> 
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 3:52 PM, Corey Farrell <git at cfware.com> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> autoconf is required to run ./bootstrap.sh after changing 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.
> 
> We discussed this on IRC a bit yesterday, but to echo my response - I
> myself work on a distribution that has at least version 2.69 of
> autoconf so it shouldn't be a big deal.  I believe that re-running
> bootstrap.sh should be so infrequent (only when we need to add things
> to detect new libraries or do system related checks) that I don't have
> a huge problem with bumping up the required version on it.  Since
> generation of the configure script could be done on a more modern
> system as a workaround I think it shouldn't be a big deal.
> 
> Anybody have opposing thoughts?
> 

I'm using the open source Opus codec from
https://github.com/traud/asterisk-opus: it requires running
bootstrap.sh, so that would be a problem for my customers on CentOS-6.

Everything that breaks CentOS-6 seems bad to me.


Thanks,
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Jean-Denis Girard

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