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