In preparation of Cyrus IMAP 2.5: autoconf and automake

[Andrew Morgan]

On Mon, 21 May 2012, Bron Gondwana wrote:

> 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.

Good enough for me then!

 	Andy