[lug] Disable Autoconf Version Check?

Zan Lynx zlynx at acm.org
Fri Jul 1 20:00:18 MDT 2016


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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