[asterisk-dev] autoconf version requirement increase

[Corey Farrell]

Thank you for pointing this out.  I have submitted a patch for Asterisk 
13, 15 and master so in future versions of Asterisk (13.19.0+ and 
15.2.0+) you will not need to run ./bootstrap.sh to build/install the 
open source Opus codec.


On 11/01/2017 04:27 PM, Jean-Denis Girard wrote:
> 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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