Re: [AOLSERVER] [DEV] Changing required autoconf version

2004-07-22 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 07:16:50AM -0400, Dossy wrote: Everyone, I'd like to change the required version of autoconf required -- currently, AOLserver configure.in works with autoconf 2.13, but I'd like to move to configure.ac and autoconf 2.50+. Does anyone have any issues with this? For

[AOLSERVER] [DEV] Changing required autoconf version

2004-07-21 Thread Dossy
Everyone, I'd like to change the required version of autoconf required -- currently, AOLserver configure.in works with autoconf 2.13, but I'd like to move to configure.ac and autoconf 2.50+. Does anyone have any issues with this? -- Dossy -- Dossy Shiobara mail: [EMAIL

Re: [AOLSERVER] [DEV] Changing required autoconf version

2004-07-21 Thread Rob Crittenden
Many relatively old (but not ancient) Linux distributions ship with autoconf 2.13 such as RedHat 7.2, 7,3 and AS 2.1. Upgrading isn't particularly painful but many only like using official rpms and AFAIK RedHat does not provide them. What is the advantage of upgrade? rob Dossy wrote: Everyone, I'd

Re: [AOLSERVER] [DEV] Changing required autoconf version

2004-07-21 Thread Dossy
On 2004.07.21, Rob Crittenden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many relatively old (but not ancient) Linux distributions ship with autoconf 2.13 such as RedHat 7.2, 7,3 and AS 2.1. Upgrading isn't particularly painful but many only like using official rpms and AFAIK RedHat does not provide them.

Re: [AOLSERVER] [DEV] Changing required autoconf version

2004-07-21 Thread Jeff Hobbs
Dossy wrote: I'd like to change the required version of autoconf required -- currently, AOLserver configure.in works with autoconf 2.13, but I'd like to move to configure.ac and autoconf 2.50+. Does anyone have any issues with this? Note that the Tcl core made the move to 2.50+ in 8.5 (the dev

Re: [AOLSERVER] [DEV] Changing required autoconf version

2004-07-21 Thread John Caruso
At Wednesday 07:23 AM 7/21/2004, you wrote: On 2004.07.21, Rob Crittenden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many relatively old (but not ancient) Linux distributions ship with autoconf 2.13 such as RedHat 7.2, 7,3 and AS 2.1. Upgrading isn't particularly painful but many only like using official rpms

Re: [AOLSERVER] [DEV] Changing required autoconf version

2004-07-21 Thread Dossy
On 2004.07.21, Jeff Hobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that the Tcl core made the move to 2.50+ in 8.5 (the dev head). This is another reason to upgrade AOLserver to use autoconf 2.50+ -- since AOLserver's build uses Tcl's build as a basis, until we switch AOLserver to use autoconf 2.50+, we

Re: [AOLSERVER] [DEV] Changing required autoconf version

2004-07-21 Thread Jeff Hobbs
Note that the Tcl core made the move to 2.50+ in 8.5 (the dev head). This is another reason to upgrade AOLserver to use autoconf 2.50+ -- since AOLserver's build uses Tcl's build as a basis, until we switch AOLserver to use autoconf 2.50+, we may not be able to build AOLserver against Tcl

Re: [AOLSERVER] [DEV] Changing required autoconf version

2004-07-21 Thread Dossy
On 2004.07.21, John Caruso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.redhat.com/swr/noarch/autoconf-2.57-3.noarch.html That's a RedHat 9 RPM, not an Advanced Server 2.1 RPM. Excuse my RedHat ignorance, but could you explain the difference? Will this RPM not install on RHAS 2.1 at all? Is it

Re: [AOLSERVER] [DEV] Changing required autoconf version

2004-07-21 Thread Dossy
On 2004.07.21, Jeff Hobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't see why that's an issue really - only if you ever need to regenerate the core Tcl stuff. It comes with a ready-made configure that should work for AOLServer build variants. At some point, AOLserver's build was relying on Tcl source.

Re: [AOLSERVER] [DEV] Changing required autoconf version

2004-07-21 Thread John Caruso
At Wednesday 11:40 AM 7/21/2004, you wrote: On 2004.07.21, John Caruso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.redhat.com/swr/noarch/autoconf-2.57-3.noarch.html That's a RedHat 9 RPM, not an Advanced Server 2.1 RPM. Excuse my RedHat ignorance, but could you explain the difference? RedHat split

Re: [AOLSERVER] [DEV] Changing required autoconf version

2004-07-21 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 14:40, Dossy wrote: On 2004.07.21, John Caruso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.redhat.com/swr/noarch/autoconf-2.57-3.noarch.html That's a RedHat 9 RPM, not an Advanced Server 2.1 RPM. Excuse my RedHat ignorance, but could you explain the difference? Will