Due to backbranch packaging, and having to support several different versions of autoconf as a results, its a bit more confusing ...

'k, normally it would be in /usr/local/bin:

developer# ls -lt autoconf-*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  14657 Aug 13  2009 autoconf-2.62
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  13420 Aug 26  2007 autoconf-2.61
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   5009 Aug 16  2007 autoconf-2.13
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   7674 Aug 16  2007 autoconf-2.59
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   6196 Aug 16  2007 autoconf-2.53

But, since they seem to have 'skipped' 2.63 in FreeBSD for some reason (current version in ports is 2.68), 2.63 had to be manually installed seperately from ports:

developer# /root/bin/autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.63
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.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.

Sorry for the confusion on that ...


On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Robert Haas wrote:

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote:
Going once, going twice...

I'll go ahead and do this, barring objections or some other volunteer.

developer.postgresql.org apparently hates me.  After waiting an
insanely long time to copy over the exported tarball to that machine,
I tried to follow the instructions at
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Alpha_release_process but of course it
didn't work:

$ src/tools/version_stamp.pl alpha4
Stamped these files with version number 9.1alpha4:
        configure.in
        doc/bug.template
        src/include/pg_config.h.win32
        src/interfaces/libpq/libpq.rc.in
        src/port/win32ver.rc
Don't forget to run autoconf 2.63 before committing.
$ autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.62
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.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.
$ autoconf
configure.in:22: error: Autoconf version 2.63 is required.
Untested combinations of 'autoconf' and PostgreSQL versions are not
recommended.  You can remove the check from 'configure.in' but it is then
your responsibility whether the result works or not.
configure.in:22: the top level
autom4te-2.62: /usr/local/bin/gm4 failed with exit status: 1

As Magnus pointed out to me on IM, there must be a usable version of
autoconf on this machine somewhere if it's doing the nightly snapshot
builds, but beats me where it is.  Help?

--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company


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