Matthias Andree wrote:
James Yonan schrieb:
2009.07.16 -- Version 2.1_rc19
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* In configure.ac, use datadir instead of datarootdir for compatibility
with
Dear Jim,
This is backwards. Please don't do that, but revert that change and
instead update the argument of AC_PREREQ in configure.ac to read this:
AC_PREREQ(2.60)
Since you're using autoconf/automake, configure.ac changes and
requirements have zero impact on end users who download the tarball that
you generate through "make dist". Such changes only affects developers
who want to hack configure.ac or use the SVN version, and you can simply
expect them to have an autoconf version no older than 36 months.
In my experience, newer autoconf versions are more portable, have less
bugs, and are good for a much smoother ride than older versions.
I'm happy to look into updating configure.ac, which in general needs an
overhaul anyways - unless you say "no configure.ac updates before 2.1
release".
We need to be able to build OpenVPN on older Linux distros, such as RHEL
4, that use pre-2.60 versions of autoconf.
Before I made this change, I found that the previous code (using
datarootdir instead of datadir on RHEL 4, autoconf-2.59-5) would
generate a make install script that violated the --prefix argument --
i.e. make install would try to write stuff outside the --prefix dir. I
was running the make install as a non-root user, so the jailbreak out of
--prefix was obvious because it tried to write to parts of the
filesystem that generated "permission denied" errors and halted the script.
I'm not an autoconf/automake expert, so if there's a better way to fix
the issue, I'm open to it.
James
