Re: autoconf issues

Hi Fabian,

thanks for your comments. Our linux build server is running CentOS 5.5,
so that's not so ancient. On this box, autoconf is however still v2.59.

I therefore think that older autoconf versions like 2.59 may still be
widely in use. So I wonder: Will we not run into other incompatibility
issues when updating config.guess and config.sub?

And can you confirm that the patch to configure.in you propose is needed
only for newer autoconf versions? Because the pthread check in configure
actually seems to work fine here...

Regards,
Michael


Quoting Fabian Greffrath <[email protected]>:

> Dear Xvid devs,
>
> first, let me congratulate you to the 1.3.0 release.
>
> However, I've found issues with your usage of autoconf in the
> build/generic directory:
>
> 1) The files config.guess and config.sub in this directory are
> *ancient* (they date back to 2003) and should really get replaced by
> more current ones. They are available e.g. here:
> <http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config>
>
> 2a) The configure script has been created with an ancient version
> (2.59) of autoconf, which also dates back to 2003. Please regenerate it
> with a current version of autoconf.
>
> 2b) But then, the configure.in template for autoconf contains a syntax
> error that makes the generated configure script generate faulty code.
> Please find a simple patch attached or (in case it gets mangled) here:
> <http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-multimedia/xvidcore.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/configure.in-fix.patch>
>
> Best regards,
> Fabian