Re: [GD-DEVEL] Call for test: 2.0.36

On Sunday 09 March 2008 16:53, Pierre Joye wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Before I release 2.0.36 officially, I would like to get some feedbacks
> first. If everything runs smoothly and on your various platforms :)
> > 
> The packages are available here:
> 
> http://pierre.libgd.org/qa/gd-2.0.36.tar.gz
> http://pierre.libgd.org/qa/gd-2.0.36.tar.bz2
> 
> Please let me know if you met any issue or if everything works as expected.

I was about to test it, but ran into a glitch:

It is a little annoying that it fails if one doesn't have the latest version
of autotools.  My Mandriva 2007.1 systems from only 6 months ago stll have
version 2.59, and I suspect it will be another year or so before one
can count on having 2.61 as a majority of linux machines.

./configure runs normally, but then

[11] make
cd . && /bin/sh /usr/local/src/gd-2.0.36/config/missing --run autoheader
aclocal.m4:17: error: this file was generated for autoconf 2.61.
You have another version of autoconf.  If you want to use that,
you should regenerate the build system entirely.
aclocal.m4:17: the top level
autom4te-2.5x: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 63
autoheader-2.5x: /usr/bin/autom4te failed with exit status: 63
make: *** [config.hin] Error 1

[12] autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.59

Wouldn't it be better to build the distro tarball on a machine with
autotools 2.59, so that it is usable on a larger number of configurations?

	regards,

		Ethan

-- 
Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742