[squid-users] configure: error: ls -t appears to fail

hi there,

i have always had an issue with compiling squid on GNU/Linux... every time i
run ./configure i get the title of this email as the output of "checking if
build environment is sane".

my system IS sane. as far as i can tell, this is an issue with older versions
of autoconf generating an insane sanity check which somehow breaks with the
more recent versions of ls.

may i please request that squid uses a more up to date version of autoconf to
generate the configure script for the next release? (i just tried on today's
RC2 and this still happens). you are currently using 2.13 which is quite a few
years old.

i would just run autoconf myself (i have 2.57), but recently i've been getting
the error: do not use LIBOBJS directly, use AC_LIBOBJ. and i have no idea how
to fix it.

no-one is gonna disagree that GNU autotools suck... and unfortunately this is
another one of those cases where they are a real pain in the backside.

cheers,
Sam

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