Commit f5d8e1c77d2ed40ee734eb0c5627f425c595f33f breaks CentOS 6 (again)

Sebastian Hagedorn Hagedorn at uni-koeln.de
Wed Aug 10 05:12:26 EDT 2016


Hi Ellie,

yes, it does. Thanks!

Cheers
Sebastian

--On 10. August 2016 um 09:12:43 +1000 ellie timoney <ellie at fastmail.com> 
wrote:

> 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
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Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Sebastian Hagedorn
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