On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 07:50:35PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Debian/Ubuntu systems, if autoconf version 2.13 is installed, > autoconf will try to automatically figure out whether autoconf 2.13 or > something more modern is required (since the autoconf maintainers, > curses be upon them, didn't bother to maintain compatibility between > autoconf 2.13 and 2.50). Unfortunately, the hueristics aren't > perfect, and although the configure.in file looks superficially like > it will be compatible with autoconf 2.13, it isn't. You will end up > with a number of very subtle compilation failures if you use autoconf > 2.13. > > So declare a requirement for autoconf 2.50 using AC_PREREQ(2.50). Thanks a lot, I've applied our xfsprogs and xfstests patches, and also ported the change to the xfsdump and dmapi repositories. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
