George Vasick wrote: > Hi Sriram, > > I thought autoconf was only required to generate configure scripts. > Once the configure scripts have been created, you do not need autoconf > to run them. > PHP does use autconf script > All of the packages I have built have come with configure scripts. > There was no need to run autoconf as part of the build. Does php do > something differently? > PHP DTrace probes are back ported from PHP trunk (integrated in main stream community). These probes are designed in such a way that one will need to run autoconf to re-generate the necessary runtime dependent files. Since PHP build process has not been updated to use autoconf version other than 2.13, I noticed that we are running into issues (with build process not enabling some dependent modules / functions etc) when built with autoconf version > 2.13. Currently, OpenSolaris uses autoconf version 2.63.
On Linux platforms, autoconf / automake is compiled with version specific info appended to it. So, it is possible to have multiple version of autoconf on your system. Unfortunately, auto* tools within OpenSolaris is not compiled this way. Hence, I will need to probably compile and use autoconf 2.13 as part of PHP build process - Sriram > Thanks, > George > > Sriram Natarajan wrote: >> HI >> PHP build process requires autoconf 2.13 . I find there are lot of >> places within php configure script which depends on autoconf 2.13 >> specific functionality. I am thinking of building autoconf 2.13 as >> part of php build process so that php build can use this specific >> version. Does any one have any objections ? >> >> - Sriram >> _______________________________________________ >> sfwnv-discuss mailing list >> sfwnv-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sfwnv-discuss
