On 09/03/13 11:43, Frank Schlottmann-Gödde wrote: > Hm, I had to run autoreconf etc. on it to build it on Ubuntu 8.04 >
Did you try with initial package or with one we have in the tree? Must say I've generated configure myself (on fresh gentoo) cause Makefile.am was slightly modified - I've removed doc and tests build, we do not need it. >> The only problem is that some system, >> which can build 2.5.2 correctly, may be not able to build 2.5.3 due to >> missing appropriate version of automake if we backport all that changes >> to 2.5. > I have a build of 2.5.0.26091 lying around that was built on Ubuntu 5.0, > so it should be possible. > > To be precise I'm not sure why did that guy need automake at all :-) It's required only if one touch Makefile.am. For regular builds existing in the tree configure is OK. May be it's really not so dangerous to backport editline... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58040911&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel