In a change made on 9/23/2001 by Akim Demaille, autoconf now
overrides top_builddir with their own definition which completely
screws our build system.
We require an absolute apr_builddir in rules.mk not a relative one
to rules.mk's path. (This stops apr-util or httpd from building.)
So, I want to forbid any release made after that date
(autoconf-2.52f) until we sort this problem out. I do not have the
heart to track this down now. If someone has the desire to do this,
please submit/commit patches now. =)
There are enough other problems (autom4te.cache does not pick up
on changes to .m4 macros) that it isn't a good idea to use this
development branch anyway. But, those aren't showstoppers. This
is. -- justin
Index: CHANGES
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/apr/CHANGES,v
retrieving revision 1.201
diff -u -r1.201 CHANGES
--- CHANGES 29 Dec 2001 23:14:20 -0000 1.201
+++ CHANGES 6 Jan 2002 19:20:16 -0000
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
Changes with APR b1
+ *) Forbid use of autoconf-2.52f. [Justin Erenkrantz]
+
*) apr_lock_create() and apr_proc_mutex_create() now have an
additional parameter for specifying the lock mechanism.
apr_lock_create_np() and apr_proc_mutex_create_np() have been
Index: build/buildcheck.sh
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RCS file: /home/cvs/apr/build/buildcheck.sh,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -r1.5 buildcheck.sh
--- build/buildcheck.sh 12 Jul 2001 07:52:25 -0000 1.5
+++ build/buildcheck.sh 6 Jan 2002 19:20:16 -0000
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
echo "buildconf: checking installation..."
# autoconf 2.13 or newer
+# but not autoconf 2.52f (top_builddir is overriden)
ac_version=`autoconf --version 2>/dev/null|head -1|sed -e 's/^[^0-9]*//' -e
's/[a-z]* *$//'`
if test -z "$ac_version"; then
echo "buildconf: autoconf not found."
@@ -17,7 +18,18 @@
echo " to build Apache from CVS."
exit 1
else
+if test "$1" = "2" -a "$2" = "52"; then
+ac_version=`autoconf --version 2>/dev/null|head -1|sed -e 's/^[^0-9]*//'`
+if test "$ac_version" = "2.52f"; then
+echo "buildconf: autoconf version $ac_version is not supported."
+echo " Please install autoconf 2.52d (or earlier)"
+echo " to build Apache from CVS."
+exit 1
+fi
echo "buildconf: autoconf version $ac_version (ok)"
+else
+echo "buildconf: autoconf version $ac_version (ok)"
+fi
fi
# libtool 1.3.3 or newer
