In preparation of Cyrus IMAP 2.5: autoconf and automake

[Andrew Morgan]

On Sat, 28 Apr 2012, Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) wrote:

> The canonical build process we think applies, generally speaking, is:
>
>  $ autoreconf -v
>  $ ./configure [your-options]
>  $ make
>
> This process currently requires autoconf >= 2.67.
>
> We would appreciate you let us know whether or not such process works for you,
> preferrably though Bugzilla (please use product 'Cyrus IMAP' and component
> 'Distribution').

Why is autoreconf/autoconf required?

I have been building Cyrus from source for many years.  The tarballs 
already come with the configure script, so I have never needed to install 
the autoconf package before.

 	Andy