Re: [PATCH] bootstrap: reject m4 versions only older than 1.4.8
Ozkan Sezer <[email protected]> Thu, 6 Oct 2022 18:18:41 +0300
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On 10/6/22, Paul Eggert <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for mentioning the problem. I think the code is right here and > the documentation is wrong, so I installed the attached instead. The git history says that the requirement is 1.4.8 or newer: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf.git;a=commit;h=fec8a33d87bbe9f024a31a18642618716b7ad7c9 > The idea is that people building from Git should have reasonably up-to-date > tools, and it's not too much to ask them to have m4 1.4.16 (2011) or later. As you wish. The failure I had was on an old CentOS 6.10 setup (yes, I know that it's EOL, but it works _and_ does my job..) -- O.S.