Re: Build failure with autoconf 2.60: "requires autoconf 2.53 or newer"

[Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>]

Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> writes:

> Half of KDE and a number of other applications currently fail to build
> with a message similar to:
>
> | *** YOU'RE USING autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.60.
> | *** KDE requires autoconf 2.53 or newer
>
> Before I file bugs on these packages, I wanted to check whether this
> is a known problem and/or whether the new autoconf reports its version
> in an incompatible way (that could be changed to avoid these build
> failures).

I don't think there was any surprising change in the way that the
version number was reported.  It looks like the --version output
just changed from
    autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.59
    Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.

    Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
    warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
to
    autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.60
    Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.

    Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
    There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
    PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Does KDE use something other than "autoconf --version" to check
the Autoconf version?
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