Commit f5d8e1c77d2ed40ee734eb0c5627f425c595f33f breaks CentOS 6 (again)

ellie timoney ellie at fastmail.com
Tue Aug 9 19:12:43 EDT 2016


Hi Sebastian,

I think the attached patch should restore compatibility with autoconf
version 2.63 -- are you able to confirm?

Cheers,

ellie

On Mon, Aug 8, 2016, at 10:07 AM, ellie timoney via Cyrus-devel wrote:
> Yep, it's due to the use of the 'm4_esyscmd_s' macro.  I've seen a few
> other projects achieve 2.63 compatibility just by detecting whether this
> macro is available, and providing their own replacement if not.  I plan
> to do something like this too, hopefully before next release, but
> haven't yet looked into it deeply.  Would welcome a patch in the
> meantime!
> 
> On Thu, Aug 4, 2016, at 10:26 PM, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote:
> > Hi Ellie,
> > 
> > your commit f5d8e1c77d2ed40ee734eb0c5627f425c595f33f requires Autoconf 
> > version 2.68 or higher, but CentOS 6 only has Autoconf 2.63 by default. 
> > There is a separate RPM for Autoconf 2.68, and after I installed that it 
> > works from within the git repository if I use "autoreconf268 -vi"
> > manually.
> > 
> > I would also note that the dependencies here list Autoconf 2.63:
> > 
> > <http://cyrusimap.org/imap/installation/diy.html>
> > 
> > I have a related, but separate issue, for which I will write another
> > mail.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Sebastian
> > -- 
> >     .:.Sebastian Hagedorn - Weyertal 121 (Gebäude 133), Zimmer 2.02.:.
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