On Sat, 4 Aug 2007 01:10:06 -0400 Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 03 August 2007, David Seikel wrote:
> > On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 11:41:02 -0400 Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > On Friday 03 August 2007, Nightly build system wrote:
> > > > Autoconf version 2.13
> > >
> > > might want to post the version of autoconf that actually gets used
> >
> > autoconf --version isn't good enough?
> >
> > Hmm, Debian uses a perl script that determines which version of
> > autoconf to run based on what options you pass and other things,
> > and it defaults to 2.13 if you don't use any thing that requires
> > 2.50.
> >
> > Looking at e's autogen.sh, it calls autoconf with no arguments, so
> > it probably uses 2.13. Same with the libraries. On the other
> > hand, one of the other checks this perl script does may trigger
> > 2.50 usage for some packages.
> >
> > I'm trying to be generic here, so if the OS pulls some shenanigans
> > so that a simple autoconf --version is not sufficient, I really
> > don't want to spend the effort second guessing things.
> >
> > How about a warning that the OS may lie about versions?
>
> i'd be very very skeptical that autoconf-2.1x was actually utilized
> considering the automake/libtool versions also reported. most
> distros pull these sort of shenanigans so the only sane way of doing
> it is report all autoconf versions (for a in /usr/bin/autoconf* ; do
> ${a} --version ; done) or run the --version things in each individual
> directory before you run autogen.sh so that it shows up in every
> log. the latter makes sense anyways as you want the log to be as
> self contained as possible. -mike
I'll try the "run in individual directory" option for the next build,
and see what happens.
Trying it manually in e17/apps/e actually reported 2.50 AND 2.61. Grr.
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