On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:11:19 -0500
DRC <dcomman...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> The build system in TigerVNC unfortunately seems to require autoconf
> 2.61 or higher and also a later version of automake than is available on
> even the latest Enterprise Linux system (CentOS 5.2.)  Thus, I cannot
> build the software, nor can anyone else running Enterprise Linux.  I
> would suggest checking the configure script into the SVN repository. 
> The RealVNC source code does this.  It will give advanced users the
> option to chance the autoconf files as they see fit but will not require
> the use of autoconf/automake for the more mundane builds of the software.
> 

Checking in generated files is always a slippery slope, so I'm against
this.

But I don't see why we need a newer autoconf than what CentOS ships.
Does anyone know? That's the issue that should be fixed IMO.

Rgds
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