On 3/30/20 9:16 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 3:02 AM Tim Rühsen <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Jeff,
On 3/30/20 8:37 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
...
Is it possible to relax the Autotools requirement:
running: AUTOPOINT=true LIBTOOLIZE=true autoreconf --verbose --install
--force -I m4 --no-recursive
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: running: true --force
autoreconf: running: aclocal -I m4 --force -I m4 ${ACLOCAL_FLAGS}
/usr/share/aclocal/aalib.m4:12: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_AALIB
/usr/share/aclocal/aalib.m4:12: run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
/usr/share/aclocal/aalib.m4:12: or see
http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Extending-aclocal
configure.ac:22: error: Autoconf version 2.69 or higher is required
configure.ac:22: the top level
autom4te: /usr/bin/gm4 failed with exit status: 63
aclocal: /usr/bin/autom4te failed with exit status: 63
autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 63
./bootstrap: autoreconf failed
Solaris provides:
$ autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.68
AFAICS, Solaris doesn't come with any autotools by default. Someone
installed them on your Solaris machine. Autotools is a pure developer
software and should be kept up-to-date.
Yeah, it is not installed by default.
pkg install autoconf automake libtool
gets you the older version on Solaris. They want folks to buy a
service contract to get the latest tools. Ransomware...
That's one of the reasons I try to support Solaris so well. I want to
poke Oracle in the eye for ransoming free software . Every time we
make something available for free, we take money they earn on our hard
work out of their pockets.
I am with you at that point.
The question for me is: how to provide up-to-date GNU tools with 'pkg' ?
Who is providing those packages via 'pkg' and how can we add value to
their package repository ?
Regards, Tim
