Re: bootstrap.sh version lookup

From: Alex Rousskov <rousskov_at_measurement-factory.com>
Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2010 17:57:03 -0700

On 12/04/2010 05:19 PM, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> On 05/12/10 12:16, Alex Rousskov wrote:
>> On 12/04/2010 02:39 PM, Henrik Nordström wrote:
>>> The recent upgrade of automake& autoconf on squid-cache.org again broke
>>> bootstrap.sh.
>>>
>>> I think it's best we make squid-3 bootstrap.sh use whatever the system
>>> has as default versions and not attempt searching. The version search is
>>> mostly a legacy from when we depended on very specific autotools
>>> versions, something neither Squid-3 or even Squid-2 does these days.
>>
>> Sounds good to me. We have AC_REQUIRE or some such to protect from wrong
>> versions being used anyway.
>>
>> Removal of search may break builds on boxes where the older autotools
>> are the default ones but Squid was able to find new ones and use them. I
>> guess it is not our problem.
>>
>> Alex.
>
> IIRC those older RHEL boxes you support Alex were the worst cases for
> legacy software. If you have no problem it gets my +1 as well.

I cannot bootstrap on those boxes because they lack modern autotools so
any bootstrap.sh change will not make their situation worse.

Alex.
Received on Sun Dec 05 2010 - 00:57:25 MST

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