On Tue, 25 Nov 2025 at 09:20, Mark Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 24/11/2025 22:45, Gilles Sadowski wrote:
> > Le lun. 24 nov. 2025 à 18:40, Mark Thomas <[email protected]> a écrit :
> >>
> >> On 24/11/2025 11:12, Gilles Sadowski wrote:
> >>> Le lun. 24 nov. 2025 à 11:26, Mark Thomas <[email protected]> a écrit :
> >>>>
> >>>> On 22/11/2025 13:15, Gilles Sadowski wrote:
> >>>>> Le sam. 22 nov. 2025 à 14:09, sebb <[email protected]> a écrit :
> >>>>>>>> [...]
> >>>>>> What OS/hardware are you using?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Debian GNU/Linux
> >>>>>
> >>>>> $ uname -a
> >>>>> Linux eccen 5.10.0-32-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.223-1 (2024-08-10)
> >>>>> x86_64 GNU/Linux
> >>>>
> >>>> One more thing to check. Is "autoreconf" installed?
> >>>
> >>> Yes, it is.
> >>>
> >>> $ autoreconf --version
> >>> autoreconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.69
> >>> Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> >>> License GPLv3+/Autoconf: GNU GPL version 3 or later
> >>> <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>, 
> >>> <http://gnu.org/licenses/exceptions.html>
> >>> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> >>> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> >>>
> >>> Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.
> >>
> >> Hmm. A little older than the version I am using but only a couple of
> >> versions.
> >>
> >> Looking at the version info, this looks like Debian 11. Is that correct?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> >> I might try setting up a VM to see what is going on.
> >
> > Don't bother:  I tried on another machine (running Debian 12);
> > "configure" completed successfully, and so did "make".
> > So I still don't what is going on the other machine (that could
> > compile another software from source, also via a "configure"
> > script).  But I should probably upgrade the distribution anyways,
> > and things will hopefully get fixed in the process...
>
> For the record I saw the same issue on a clean Debian 11 install and
> couldn't get past that error.
>
> Building from the source tarball does work on Debian 11.
>
> It looks like Commons Daemon requires a new version of autotools than
> ships with Debian 11.

It would be useful to document this, e.g. in the Release Notes;
perhaps on the main website as well.

> Mark
>
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