On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 03:47:37PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: > I just built libvirt for the first time today, and noticed that > configure fails on the first missing dependency, rather than trying > harder to make it through and list all missing dependencies at the end. > I ended up restarting configure multiple times. In the process, I also > noticed that configure is somewhat out of date. > > So, what is the oldest version of autoconf and automake that libvirt > will insist on supporting? For example, is it time to require automake > 1.11.1 (the latest stable release) because of its security patch to > avoid potential problems in 'make dist'? Or is it too soon to expect > all distros to have an automake that new pre-installed, and more effort > be put into supporting automake 1.9.6 and autoconf 2.59 (those being the > implicit minimum requirements due to the use of gnulib)? Or somewhere > in between? RHEL5 is the minimum required platform, including full bootstrap from GIT source. This implies automake-1.9.6-2.1 and autoconf-2.59-12 Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list