As I said... checking out and building 'your own tarball' on a conventional system absolutely beats convincing AIX, Solaris etc to support the right m4, nevermind the whole autoconf toolchain.
I like Nick's suggestion, I presume you can find 'patch' on all archs. On Jun 7, 2017 18:00, "Dennis Clarke" <dcla...@blastwave.org> wrote: > On 06/07/2017 06:20 PM, William A Rowe Jr wrote: > >> https://github.com/apache/apr/tree/1.6.x?files=1 is our GitHub mirror of >> the 1.6 branch. >> >> Note you need to run ./buildconf - this requires libtool, autoconf and >> python. >> > > python? really? I need python to run buildconf? > > uggg ... that is a major wall to climb right there on some older > systems. Certainly ye POSIX Solaris world. > > > I'll see what I can do. > > Dennis >
