RE: cups-2.4.2-11.fc39.src.rpm depends on autoconf-2.71 or newer, not mentioned in .spec file, fails build

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On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 7:15AM +1000, Jan Pazdziora wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 02:44:34PM +0300, ijaaskelainen@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Kind regards, The Improvement Skeleton.
> 
> Please show the exact steps you use to build the cups package and the
> exact error message you get.
> 
> Technically you are correct because configure.ac has AC_PREREQ([2.71]).
> But autoconf is pulled in by the automake which is listed as BuildRequires
> in cups.spec file, and since Fedora rawhide only has
> autoconf-2.71-5.fc38.noarch, there really is not an older autoconf around
> to ruin your day.

I suspect he may be trying to rebuild the Fedora CUPS RPMs on a RHEL 8 or 9 based machine.

Ironically CUPS 2.4.x doesn't actually need autoconf to be at least 2.71, on openSUSE they have a downgrade-autoconf-requirement.patch file which downgrades the requirement to 2.69:

https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE%3AFactory/cups


Cheers,
Doug

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