Hi Sebastian,
I think the attached patch should restore compatibility with autoconf
version 2.63 -- are you able to confirm?
Cheers,
ellie
On Mon, Aug 8, 2016, at 10:07 AM, ellie timoney via Cyrus-devel wrote:
> Yep, it's due to the use of the 'm4_esyscmd_s' macro. I've seen a few
> other projects achieve 2.63 compatibility just by detecting whether this
> macro is available, and providing their own replacement if not. I plan
> to do something like this too, hopefully before next release, but
> haven't yet looked into it deeply. Would welcome a patch in the
> meantime!
>
> On Thu, Aug 4, 2016, at 10:26 PM, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote:
> > Hi Ellie,
> >
> > your commit f5d8e1c77d2ed40ee734eb0c5627f425c595f33f requires Autoconf
> > version 2.68 or higher, but CentOS 6 only has Autoconf 2.63 by default.
> > There is a separate RPM for Autoconf 2.68, and after I installed that it
> > works from within the git repository if I use "autoreconf268 -vi"
> > manually.
> >
> > I would also note that the dependencies here list Autoconf 2.63:
> >
> > <http://cyrusimap.org/imap/installation/diy.html>
> >
> > I have a related, but separate issue, for which I will write another
> > mail.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Sebastian
> > --
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diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index a773fa6..5665b5b 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -45,11 +45,11 @@ dnl
AC_INIT([cyrus-imapd],
- m4_esyscmd_s(git describe --dirty=-dirty | sed -e 's/^cyrus-imapd-//'),
+ m4_esyscmd(printf '%s' $(git describe --dirty=-dirty | sed -e 's/^cyrus-imapd-//')),
[https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-imapd/issues],
,
[https://www.cyrusimap.org])
-AC_PREREQ([2.68])
+AC_PREREQ([2.63])
AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([imap/imapd.c])
AC_CONFIG_HEADERS(config.h)
AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([cmulocal])
