Re: [PATCH] conntrack-tools: Fix build for old automake.

[Mart Frauenlob <mart.frauenlob@chello.at>]

On 07.04.2016 19:50, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 07:33:43PM +0200, Mart Frauenlob wrote:
>> On 07.04.2016 18:47, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
>>> On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 11:39:40AM +0200, Mart Frauenlob wrote:
>>>>   autoreconf fails with automake version smaller than 1.12,
>>>>   because of undefined macro AM_PROG_AR.
>>>>   So only expand it if it's actually defined.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Mart Frauenlob <mart.frauenlob@chello.at>
>>>> ---
>>>>   configure.ac |    2 +-
>>>>   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
>>>> index c541034..2c5913f 100644
>>>> --- a/configure.ac
>>>> +++ b/configure.ac
>>>> @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ AC_SUBST([libdl_LIBS])
>>>>
>>>>   AC_PROG_CC
>>>>   AC_DISABLE_STATIC
>>>> -AM_PROG_AR
>>>> +m4_ifdef([AM_PROG_AR], [AM_PROG_AR]) dnl Workaround for Automake 1.11
>>>
>>> How old is your old system? is it still a distro maintained version?
>>
>> cat /etc/debian_version
>> 6.0.10
>> Has automake 1.11.
>
> Is that still maintained?
>

Quoting https://www.debian.org/News/2016/20160212 :

February 12th, 2016
The Debian Long Term Support (LTS) Team hereby announces that Debian 6.0 
("squeeze") support will reach its end-of-life on February 29, 2016, 
five years after its initial release on February 6, 2011.

Hm, no longer since 2 months....