Hello Mike! :-) On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Mike Frysinger <[email protected]> wrote: >> I think it shoud build also on older autoconf releases - if it could >> few branches ago..? > > that isnt much of an argument. this generally affects people doing > development (as autotools arent used in a distributed package), and generally > it's expected that people doing development are a bit more competent in > keeping their systems up to date. newer versions of development tools brings > newer functionality which is what i leveraged. the unified code i wrote using > these new macros is certainly a lot better than what was there before.
Sorry I did not make myself clear, I meant - the code did build some branches earlier, but does not build right now - is that matter of autoconf version? I am using the most recent autoconf262 package for my system. On FreeBSD where user can BUILD the UrJTAG package himself using port system (also present in Gentoo I think) this autoconf issue will break build for next urjtag release. I just want to let you all know, and this problem will probably exist for every BSD user. The unified code is fine ofcourse and it should stay this way if it helps developers! However my system is up to date and the autoconf script fails... so the issue seems to be somewhat different :-) > looking into a bit more, the autoconf output lies. the problem is with only > two of the macros ... AS_VAR_APPEND and m4_ifnblank. both of which are easy > to provide fallback replacements in acinclude.m4. things seem to work for me > with autoconf-2.61+ now. i'm not really concerned with older versions > considering 2.61 was released over 3 years ago. Sorry Mike, I dont know much about this macro, and it looks that I have even more recent version of autoconf :-( To help you figure out the problem I will give you exact information about version that I use: %pkg_info -Ix autoconf m4 autotools autoconf-2.13.000227_6 Automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms autoconf-2.62 Automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms autoconf-wrapper-20071109 Wrapper script for GNU autoconf autotools-20080819 Autotools meta-port m4-1.4.13,1 GNU m4 %autoconf -V autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.62 Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille. Best regards, Tomek -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ UrJTAG-development mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/urjtag-development
