On 03/02/2012 09:21 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > If you have a virgin system, with none of GNU m4, autoconf, nor xz > installed, then the solution is to install xz from tarball, m4 from > tarball, then autoconf from tarball. That's good enough for most > people. It might be a bit more complicated on Solaris 8, since it doesn't have GCC. Admittedly this is not a real problem for me, since I have a Solaris 8 environment that I added to myself, with gcc and etc. Plus, I know that I can just use xz on Linux to decompress the tarball, and then copy the undecompressed tarball to the Solaris box. I have done this sort of thing regularly ever since coreutils started shipping in xz-only format (since I've been trying to stop adding to my Solaris 8 hoard, it doesn't have xz for instances....). Sometimes I worry that this sort of hassle discourages others who are using older hosts -- that is, I worry that these are not the sorts of things that are likely to get reported on mailing lists, as these folks will likely just shrug and give up on free software. It's hard to say how often it happens. I hope it's rare. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
