On 2018-01-18 07:42, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
On 1/18/18 5:28 AM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
* Only a specific version of autoconf, 2.69, can be used, to avoid
large code changes in the generated file. Unfortunately, Ubuntu ships
a version of autoconf that claims to be 2.69 but is actually heavily
patched. This requires all Ubuntu users to compiler their own
autoconf from source.
Can you provide more details here? My recent experience is that some
older versions of Ubuntu are OK, with respect to autoconf 2.69. Is
there are list somewhere of which versions of Ubuntu are good and
which are bad?
I know 16.04 is bad and 14.04 is good. Likely other non LTS versions are
bad as well. The point is though that with this change, we won't need to
care anymore. The autoconf in Ubuntu still works fine for building the
product. We just don't like it now because it introduces spurious
changes in the history for generated-configure.sh.
/Erik
