configure fails in latest mtn version

Casey Cichon casey at wizkid.homelinux.net
Fri Mar 21 10:45:53 EDT 2008


Mark Doliner wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:14:00 -0500, Casey Cichon wrote
>   
>> Stu Tomlinson wrote:
>>     
>>> On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 15:58 -0500, Casey Cichon wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> i just now went to mtn pull; mtn up on my development source.  when i 
>>>> run ./configure I get the following error.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Presumably you have tried re-running autogen.sh? What version of
>>> autoconf do you have?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>>
>>> Stu.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> autoconf version 2.59, autogen.sh doesn't return any errors ..... 
>> just the configure blows up.
>>     
>
> Hey Casey, so I know exactly why this is happening.  I changed some lines in
> our configure.ac from AC_CHECK_HEADERS() to AC_CHECK_HEADERS_ONCE(), and the
> latter function was only added in 2.59c (I think that's right) which was
> released in April 2006.  That's pretty recent, and we probably shouldn't
> expect people to be using a version of autoconf newer than that.
>
> I think I'll revert this change, since it isn't extremely necessary.  But
> before I do, what OS/distribution are you using?
>
> -Mark
>
>   
That box is Fedora 5 .... I really do need to upgrade that thing.

Casey




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