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 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
