>>>> current AC_PREREQ is 2.61, fwiw, which is from 2006. Latest Autoconf is >>>> 2.69 from 2012, preceded by 2.68 from 2010. >>>> >>>> It may be useful to limit the variety of autoconfs in use by setting >>>> AC_PREREQ to, say, 2.68. >>> Eeek! 2.61! I believe our current minimum is 2.67 (though 2.68 seems common >>> and reasonable) >> Yeah - >> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/file/056398db9dcb/common/autoconf/configure.ac >> says 33 AC_PREREQ([2.61]) >> so bumping it to 2.68 (or at least 2.67) may be reasonable. >> >> cheers, >> dalibor topic >> > I just checked around on the various systems I'm usually building on. 2.67 is > default on my very old Ubuntu. The new Ubuntu I'm switching to has 2.69. On > cygwin you get 2.69, on Solaris I used OpenCSW which also provided 2.69. On > mac I have only managed to get autoconf through building a source bundle > anyway.
MacPorts is at 2.69. -DrD-
