On 01/25/2010 03:57 PM, Nathan Kinder wrote:
On 01/25/2010 03:36 PM, John Dennis wrote:
Who wrote our autogen.sh script and why?
Why aren't we using autoreconf instead?
FWIW autogen.sh is seriously broken, it's getting incorrect results
when comparing different versions of tools. It thinks 1.7 is newer
than 1.11 because it's doing string comparisons which causes it to
run the wrong versions of some of the tools. I can fix the version
comparison but my inclination is not to bother since autogen scripts
have been replaced by the autoreconf tool. As for testing the minimum
required tool version; is there an actual problem being solved by this?
It was likely inherited from 389 DS, which was inherited from
somewhere I don't recall. The main reason for minimum version
checking in DS was due to generating a configure that worked across
RHEL/Fedora/Solaris/HP-UX without running autoreconf on all of those
systems before each build (which didn't work either IIRC). It was
found that specific versions were needed to make this work.
Actually, I just looked at the FreeIPA autogen.sh, and it's nothing like
the 389 DS one. The 389 Ds autogen.sh just does some minimum version
checking (in a different way then the FreeIPA script) and then calls
autoreconf if those requirements are correct. I'm not sure of the
origin of the FreeIPA autogen.sh script.
-NGK
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