Cyrus IMAPd 2.2.2-BETA Released

[Rob Siemborski]

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Simon Matter wrote:

> I have a simple question regarding the change to the support for automake
> 1.7 and autoconf 2.57. Older RedHat releases like 7.2, 7.3 are using
> automake 1.4 and autoconf 2.13. cyrus-imapd-2.2.2-BETA and
> cyrus-sasl-2.1.16-BETA don't like those older autoconf/automake. My
> question is, is this expected behaviour or should it be possible to use
> the old autoconf/make tools?

It is not possible to continue to use the old tools, since they require
acconfig.h, which is now generated from the configure.in file itself.

> I even don't remember why I call autoconf in
> the cyrus-imapd build process but I'm sure there was a reason I used to
> call it.  Upgrading autoconf/automake is not an option here, so is there
> another way to do it or do I usually not nees to run automake/autoconf on
> the released tarballs to build on Linux.

You'd need to run it if you change something in the configure script,
otherwise you shouldn't need to run it.

-Rob

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