Bug 4596

Summary:	autoconf 2.53 is actually 2.13?
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Peter Bienstman (RETIRED) <pbienst>
Component:	[OLD] Development	Assignee:	Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) <azarah>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	malakin, pbienst
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Peter Bienstman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-07-05 15:58:32 UTC

After emerging autoconf, 'emerge -s' claims I have version 2.53 installed, but 
'autoconf --version' tells me it's only 2.13. 
 
This breaks compiling cvs KDE apps, as make -f Makefile.cvs will fail

Comment 1 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-07-07 02:40:08 UTC

Please check the ebuild.  As autoconf-2.53 is not 100% backwards compadible
with 2.13, it breaks many packages.  Thus we have a "dual" setup.

In a perfect world, KDE apps which uses autoconf-2.50 or later, should have
"AC_PREREQ[2.50]" in configure.in.  This will cause the autoconf wrapper
to switch to 2.53a.  If they do not (and are broken if you ask me), then
just do something like:

# WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5=1 ./configure && make

This will tell the wrapper to switch to 2.53a as well.

Comment 2 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-11-07 17:50:35 UTC

*** Bug 10400 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***