[lug] Disable Autoconf Version Check?

[Michael J. Hammel]

On Sat, 2016-07-02 at 04:24 +0000, stimits at comcast.net wrote:
> It just says my version of make is too old. It wants something like
> 3.7 minimum, but I'm using 4.0...it's mistakenly thinking 4.0 is old
> when it is really too new.

Try 
  autoreconf -i

to regenerate configure from configure.in.  If the message comes from
running configure, edit config.log, go to the end of the file and then
back up until you see the message configure failed on.  It will tell
you want line in configure that caused the error, which you can use to
backtrack to either configure.in mods or possibly Makefile.in.  

>  
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org>
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Sent: Sat, 02 Jul 2016 02:00:18 -0000 (UTC)
> Subject: Re: [lug] Disable Autoconf Version Check?
> On 7/1/2016 6:32 PM, stimits at comcast.net wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm using Fedora 23 with everything updated, which means "make" is 
> > currently version 4.0. However, I must compile some older glibc
> (2.17, 
> > when make was version 3.something) for a foreign architecture
> (armhf 
> > and aarch64), and find myself scratching my head at where the 
> > configure script is determining my version of make is too old.
> There 
> > is a configure.in with AC_CHECK_PROG_VER, which I have modified
> trying 
> > to get it to accept the much newer version 4.0. My changes are
> either 
> > wrong, or ignored, and configuration always fails with "make"
> missing 
> > or too old.
> >
> autoconf dumps a ton of information into log files, which should
> tell 
> you why your version check isn't working.
> Also, after you updated the configure.in did you regenerate the 
> configure script? Just double check the simple things...
> 
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