Re: Autotools version

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Dec 29, 2019, 23:30 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq4kxiiuba.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAH8yC8kwsnnvmo2Oyx-NDN17KGWTgDB+_CwNqsqJQWWe47sf3Q@mail.gmail.com>

Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> writes:

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> Hi Everyone,
>
> I'm trying to build 2.24.1 from sources. It is failing on an old
> Fedora machine with the error:
>
>     Autoconf 2.59 or higher is required
>
> The irony of Autootools checking version numbers is not lost on me
> considering I only run configure, make and make install.
>
> Would it be possible to drop the Autotools version back to earlier
> versions of Git?

Hmph, because the primary way to use our build procedure is to tweak with either command line or config.mak file without using configure at all, and because I don't use ./configure at all, I didn't even know that our release procedure was adding ./configure to the tarball.

I wonder if it would help for me to stop shipping the file so that anybody who wants to use 'configure' can do so using their own version of autoconf? That way, there won't be an issue like this that may come from autoconf & autotools versions, I guess.

I dunno.