Autoconf 2.61 or higher

[tendonsie]

I use more than one year mangos and compile works great.

I use Centos 5.4.

Now today, I want to update my MaNGOS and I compile I have next problem:

configure.ac:39: error: Autoconf version 2.61 or higher is requierd.
configure.ac:39: the top level
and then erorr error error and it stops.

Now I have autoconf 2.59 on my Centos 5.4.

I upgrade it:

yum update autoconf

Feedback: no packages marked for update. Nothing to update.

So i decedid to upgrade to Centos 5.5.

Now I got Centos 5.5 (Final)

Again try to compile MaNGOS, again it don't work.

With yum update the same like before.

Any idea what to do? Centos don't see i higher autoconf version then I have now, but for mangos I need higher one.

Thanks.

[Nick Taylor]

As far as I can tell, autoconf 2.59 is the highest version of autoconf that is in the CentOS repositories. The only way I can see around this is to compile your own version of autoconf, and information on that can be found here: http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/

Hope that helps.

[Alex]

Just do the following

--- a/dep/ACE_wrappers/configure.ac     2010-10-30 17:36:27.000000000 +0400
+++ b/dep/ACE_wrappers/configure.ac     2010-10-30 17:37:19.000000000 +0400
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@

dnl Require GNU Autoconf 2.58 or better.  Previous versions did not
dnl correctly support HP-UX.
-AC_PREREQ(2.61)
+AC_PREREQ(2.59)

dnl Autoconf explicitly forbids patterns containing "_AC_".  This causes
dnl a problem when using MPC to generate the Automake ".am" files since

And it will do with 2.59. Don't know why it was bumped to 2.61. Tested, configures and builds without a scratch on CentOS.

[tendonsie]

Thanks

[Nick Taylor]

There must be some reason though, I doubt they would up the requirement just because a new version was released.

[freghar]

dep/ACE_wrappers/configure.ac

@@ -39,7 +36,7 @@ additional details.])

dnl Require GNU Autoconf 2.58 or better.  Previous versions did not
dnl correctly support HP-UX.
-AC_PREREQ([2.58])
+AC_PREREQ(2.61)

dnl Autoconf explicitly forbids patterns containing "_AC_".  This causes
dnl a problem when using MPC to generate the Automake ".am" files since

3c0f8c0efca89 , the ACE update commit by Neo2003. Maybe the reason can be found in ACE scm logs.

[Furious-Py]

Use this rpm

http://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/rhel/beta/6/source/SRPMS/autoconf-2.63-4.el6.src.rpm

With it you can compile again in centos, but i recomend you ubuntu 10.04 x64 lts

i changed yesterday from centos 5.5 to ubuntu and is a lot better

[Alex]

There must be some reason though, I doubt they would up the requirement just because a new version was released.

There is no errors in autoconf run, so we may assume this requirement is void in our case.

Well... soon is CentOS 6 coming, so we won't need this small fix anymore