On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:17:12AM -0400, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote: > The aclocal.m4 file is produced when (/usr/bin/)aclocal is invoked > by ./autogen.sh file in preparation for building gluster. (You have > to run autogen.sh to produce the ./configure file.) Right, then my plan will not work, and the only way to fix the problem is to upgrade automake on the machine that produces the gluterfs releases. > As a side note, I sampled a few currently shipping systems and see > that the automake shipped with/for Fedora 16 and 17, FreeBSD 8.2 and > 8.3, and NetBSD 5.1.2, is automake-1.11, which has all the > appearances of supporting python 2.5 (and 3.0). You seem to take for granted that people building a glusterfs release will run autotools before running configure. This is not the way it should work: a released tarball should contain a configure script that works anywhere. The tarballs released up to at least 3.3.0qa40 have a configure script that cannot detect python > 2.4 -- Emmanuel Dreyfus manu@xxxxxxxxxx