Hi Helmut, On 22/11/2019 06.25, Helmut Grohne wrote: > povray fails to cross build from source, because it ships a broken, > outdated, embedded copy of AX_BOOST_BASE in > unix/config/ax_boost_base.m4. The actual bug #872256 is already fixed > for a while in autoconf-archive, but povray happens to ship a copy of > the bug. Please remove your embedded copy or - failing that - update it > and register it with the security tracker. This bug report comes without > a patch, because the actual bug is already fixed.
Does the latest version of ax_boost_base.m4 available from https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf-archive/ax_boost_base.html contain the fixes? I'd like to point upstream to that location with "please update your embedded copy of ..." Andreas
