In preparation of Cyrus IMAP 2.5: autoconf and automake

[Bron Gondwana]

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 12:03:31PM -0700, Andrew Morgan wrote:
> 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.

We'll probably keep shipping releases with the configure script - but if you're
building from git you need to do the whole dance.

Bron.