fennec fails to build when host system lacks autoconf2.13

fennec fails to build when host system lacks autoconf2.13

[Otavio Salvador]

Hello,

It takes a while until I found the reason fennec was failing to build;
it needs autoconf2.13 but OE doesn't has it anymore.

Does someone feels like fixing it?
 
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Re: fennec fails to build when host system lacks autoconf2.13

[Koen Kooi]

On 27-09-2008 22:09, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Hello,
>
> It takes a while until I found the reason fennec was failing to build;
> it needs autoconf2.13 but OE doesn't has it anymore.
>
> Does someone feels like fixing it?

I've asked the mozilla people to fix their crappy autotools code, but 
they say that the mozilla code isn't buggy, but that all autoconf >2.13 
versions are buggy.....

Re: fennec fails to build when host system lacks autoconf2.13

[Henning Heinold]

On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 04:10:29PM +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
> On 27-09-2008 22:09, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> It takes a while until I found the reason fennec was failing to build;
>> it needs autoconf2.13 but OE doesn't has it anymore.
>>
>> Does someone feels like fixing it?
>
> I've asked the mozilla people to fix their crappy autotools code, but  
> they say that the mozilla code isn't buggy, but that all autoconf >2.13  
> versions are buggy.....

Args,

I looked at this autotools abuse too and this is really crap. Seems
no easy fixing for us.


Bye Henning

Re: fennec fails to build when host system lacks autoconf2.13

[Phil Blundell]

On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 18:13 +0200, Henning Heinold wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 04:10:29PM +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
> > On 27-09-2008 22:09, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> It takes a while until I found the reason fennec was failing to build;
> >> it needs autoconf2.13 but OE doesn't has it anymore.
> >>
> >> Does someone feels like fixing it?
> >
> > I've asked the mozilla people to fix their crappy autotools code, but  
> > they say that the mozilla code isn't buggy, but that all autoconf >2.13  
> > versions are buggy.....
> 
> Args,
> 
> I looked at this autotools abuse too and this is really crap. Seems
> no easy fixing for us.

Is it that hard to put autoconf 2.13 back in OE?  I don't know why it
was removed but I can't think of any insurmountable obstacle to
reinstating it.  Debian is still shipping that old version for
compatibility reasons, which suggests that there is a significant
codebase out there which doesn't build with autoconf 2.50 and newer.

p.

Re: fennec fails to build when host system lacks autoconf2.13

[Koen Kooi]

On 28-09-2008 20:53, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 18:13 +0200, Henning Heinold wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 04:10:29PM +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
>>> On 27-09-2008 22:09, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> It takes a while until I found the reason fennec was failing to build;
>>>> it needs autoconf2.13 but OE doesn't has it anymore.
>>>>
>>>> Does someone feels like fixing it?
>>> I've asked the mozilla people to fix their crappy autotools code, but
>>> they say that the mozilla code isn't buggy, but that all autoconf>2.13
>>> versions are buggy.....
>> Args,
>>
>> I looked at this autotools abuse too and this is really crap. Seems
>> no easy fixing for us.
>
> Is it that hard to put autoconf 2.13 back in OE?

Actually we would only need autoconfig-native2.13 (no, not a typo) and 
install it as 'autoconf2.13' to make packaged-staging happy.
Simply resurrecting auto-native-2.13 will not work in this case.

regards,

Koen