On 09/13/2010 12:16 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
The Mir Ports project also includes automake 1.9.6, but that's the
extent of pre-compiled builds provided by the distro. (Obviously,
they aren't aware of the security bugs in only providing such old
versions).
By the way, MirBSD's stock autoconf is equally broken in the same
manner (and the valid pre-installed choices there are 2.13 and 2.61,
and lack of AUTOCONF_VERSION in the environment gives 0 exit status
without a valid version string).
Yep. OpenBSD, too.
Thankfully, it was rather painless to install stock automake 1.11.1 and
autoconf 2.67 onto the machine at a point in PATH earlier than the
broken wrapper scripts, and once those were in place, I was able to
bootstrap and test directly from autoconf.git. (Getting a working git
installed was the harder proposition. Among other things, MirBSD's
<sys/select.h> is broken if you define _POSIX_C_SOURCE as git does,
because fd_set is defined only when you do not request POSIX compliance;
and the git port in /usr/ports failed to build.)
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