Re: bootstrap.sh version lookup

On 05/12/10 12:16, Alex Rousskov wrote:
> On 12/04/2010 02:39 PM, Henrik Nordström wrote:
>> The recent upgrade of automake& autoconf on squid-cache.org again broke
>> bootstrap.sh.
>>
>> I think it's best we make squid-3 bootstrap.sh use whatever the system
>> has as default versions and not attempt searching. The version search is
>> mostly a legacy from when we depended on very specific autotools
>> versions, something neither Squid-3 or even Squid-2 does these days.
>
> Sounds good to me. We have AC_REQUIRE or some such to protect from wrong
> versions being used anyway.
>
> Removal of search may break builds on boxes where the older autotools
> are the default ones but Squid was able to find new ones and use them. I
> guess it is not our problem.
>
> Alex.

IIRC those older RHEL boxes you support Alex were the worst cases for
legacy software. If you have no problem it gets my +1 as well.

While we are at it can we rename the configure.in to configure.ac ?

Amos

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